fornix of brain
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
- EMAPA:35352
- UMLS:C0152334 (BIRNLEX:705)
- BAMS:f
- FMA:61965 (inferred)
- Wikipedia:fornix_of_brain
- UMLS:C0458370 (ncithesaurus:Cerebral_Fornix)
- FMA:83865
- MA:0002747
- DHBA:10576
- SCTID:279302004
- NCIT:C32289
- neuronames:268 (BIRNLEX:705)
- DMBA:17767
- HBA:9249
- BIRNLEX:705
uberon_slim, pheno_slim, human_reference_atlas
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Gray747.png
fornix hippocampus, fornix (column and body of fornix), fornix cerebri, hippocampus fornix
fornix
uberon
UBERON:0000052
Fornix of neuraxis, Fornix of forebrain
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCBITaxon_9606
Term relations
- tract of brain
- extends_fibers_into some mammillary body
- part of some hippocampal formation
- extends_fibers_into some septal nuclear complex