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Noun: mamillary body
  1. One of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix
    - mammillary body, corpus mamillare

Derived forms: mamillary bodies

Type of: neural structure

Part of: betweenbrain, diencephalon, interbrain, thalmencephalon

Encyclopedia: Mamillary body