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corpus mamillare (medicine)


corpus mamillare -->
mamillary body


A small, round, paired cell group that protrudes into the interpeduncular fossa from the inferior aspect of the hypothalamus. It receives hippocampal fibres through the fornix and projects fibres to the anterior thalamic nuclei and into the brainstem tegmentum.

Synonym: corpus mamillare, mamillary tubercle of hypothalamus.