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Heavily myelinated fiber bundle of the TELENCEPHALON projecting from the hippocampal formation to the HYPOTHALAMUS. Some authorities consider the fornix part of the LIMBIC SYSTEM. The fimbria starts as a flattened band of axons arising from the subiculum and HIPPOCAMPUS, which then thickens to form the fornix.
Entry Term(s)
Commissura Hippocampi
Commissure of Fornix
Dorsal Hippocampal Commissure
Fimbria (Brain)
Fimbria of Hippocampus
Fimbria, Brain
Fimbria-Fornix
Fornical Commissure
Fornix (Brain)
Fornix-Fimbria
Hippocampal Commissure
NLM Classification #
WL 314
Previous Indexing
Hippocampus (1966-1999)
Public MeSH Note
2008; see FORNIX (BRAIN) 2000-2007; for FIMBRIA OF HIPPOCAMPUS see under HIPPOCAMPUS 2000-2014 now HIPPOCAMPAL FORMATION
Heavily myelinated fiber bundle of the TELENCEPHALON projecting from the hippocampal formation to the HYPOTHALAMUS. Some authorities consider the fornix part of the LIMBIC SYSTEM. The fimbria starts as a flattened band of axons arising from the subiculum and HIPPOCAMPUS, which then thickens to form the fornix.