Thesaurus: fornix
An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
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- n. An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
- n. Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
- n. generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space)
- n. an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies
- (a) An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva. (b) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
- n generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space) n an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies