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mammillary bodies

mammillary bodies is the plural of mammillary body.

Meaning of mammillary body

Noun

mammillary body (plural mammillary bodies)

  1. One of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the human brain, that act as a relay for impulses coming from the amygdalae and hippocampi to the thalamus, and (as part of the diencephalon) form part of the limbic system.
    • The mammillary body is the most posterior part of the hypothalamus; there exist medially large and small cell divisions.2004, Robert Melillo, Gerry Leisman, Neurobehavioral Disorders of Childhood: An Evolutionary Perspective, page 99

Questions about mammillary bodies

What is mammillary bodies the plural of?
Mammillary bodies is the plural of mammillary body.

Words near mammillary bodies in the dictionary

  1. mammillaria
  2. mammillarias
  3. mammillaries
  4. mammillariform
  5. mammillary
  6. mammillary bodies
  7. mammillary body
  8. mammillate
  9. mammillated
  10. mammillation
  11. mammillations

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