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body of fornix

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Part of fornix adjacent to the crura where they join together at the midline underneath the corpus callosum. [ BIRNLEX:739 ]

Synonyms: columna fornicis, body of fornix, column of fornix, body of fornix of forebrain, fornix body, columns of fornix

Term info

database cross reference
  • BAMS:bfx
  • DHBA:10578
  • BIRNLEX:739
  • UMLS:C0228289 (BIRNLEX:739)
  • neuronames:271
  • SCTID:369117006
  • BAMS:fx
  • Wikipedia:Columns_of_fornix
  • MBA:436
  • HBA:9252
  • DHBA:10577
  • FMA:61968
UBPROP 0000001

The columns (anterior pillars; fornicolumns) of the fornix arch downward in front of the interventricular foramen and behind the anterior commissure, and each descends through the gray substance in the lateral wall of the third ventricle to the base of the brain, where it ends in the corpus mammillare. [WP,unvetted][Wikipedia:Columns_of_fornix].

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Gray747.png

has related synonym

columns of the fornix, columna fornicis

id

UBERON:0004680

prefLabel

body of fornix, Body of fornix of forebrain