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fornix of brain

^ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0000052

A C-shaped bundle of fibres (axons) in the brain, and carries signals from the hippocampus to the mammillary bodies and septal nuclei. It is typically divided into the columns (crus), body, commissure and the pre-commissural and post-commissural fornix (MM). [ BIRNLEX:705 ]

Synonyms: neuraxis fornix, fornix of neuraxis, forebrain fornix, brain fornix, cerebral fornix

Term info

database cross reference
  • SCTID:279302004
  • Wikipedia:fornix_of_brain
  • BAMS:f
  • MA:0002747
  • NCIT:C32289
  • EMAPA:35352
  • BIRNLEX:705
  • FMA:83865
  • UMLS:C0152334 (BIRNLEX:705)
  • UMLS:C0458370 (ncithesaurus:Cerebral_Fornix)
  • DMBA:17767
  • HBA:9249
  • neuronames:268 (BIRNLEX:705)
  • FMA:61965 (inferred)
  • DHBA:10576
Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas

depicted by

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

has related synonym

fornix hippocampus, fornix (column and body of fornix), fornix cerebri, hippocampus fornix

id

UBERON:0000052

prefLabel

Fornix of neuraxis, Fornix of forebrain

present in taxon

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606