Mammillary body

Mammillary body
Sagittal section, "Corpus mamillare" highlighted.[1]
Coronal section of brain through intermediate mass of third ventricle. (Label "Corpora mamillaria" at bottom.)
Details
Part ofDiencephalon
SystemLimbic
Partsmedial mammillary nucleus
lateral mammillary nucleus
Identifiers
Latincorpus mamillare
(plural: corpora mamillaria)
Acronym(s)mmb
MeSHD008326
NeuroNames412
NeuroLex IDbirnlex_865
TA98A14.1.08.402
TA25674
FMA74877
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The mammillary bodies are a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the brain that, as part of the diencephalon, form part of the limbic system. They are located at the ends of the anterior arches of the fornix.[2] They consist of two groups of nuclei, the medial mammillary nuclei and the lateral mammillary nuclei.[3]

Neuroanatomists have often categorized the mammillary bodies as part of the posterior part of hypothalamus.[4]

  1. ^ Henry Gray (1918). Anatomy of the Human Body.
  2. ^ "Mammillary Bodies". Springer Reference. Retrieved 2013-06-03.
  3. ^ Vann SD, Aggleton JP (January 2004). "The mammillary bodies: two memory systems in one?" (PDF). Nature Reviews. Neuroscience. 5 (1): 35–44. doi:10.1038/nrn1299. PMID 14708002. S2CID 15027244.[permanent dead link].
  4. ^ M.B. Carpenter and J. Sutin: Human Neuroanatomy (8th edition) 1983

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