Medical Dictionary

hippocampal commissure

noun

Medical Definition of HIPPOCAMPAL COMMISSURE

:  a triangular band of nerve fibers joining the two crura of the fornix of the rhinencephalon anteriorly before they fuse to form the body of the fornix—called also lyra, psalterium

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