FORNIX
\fˈɔːnɪks], \fˈɔːnɪks], \f_ˈɔː_n_ɪ_k_s]\
Definitions of FORNIX
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
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Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
By Oddity Software
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An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
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Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
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An arched sheet of white longitudinal fibres beneath the corpus callosum; one of the arched scales in the orifice of some flowers.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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A medullary body in the brain, below the corpus callosum and above the middle ventricle, on the median line. This body, which is curved upon itself, terminates anteriorly by a prolongation, which constitutes its anterior pillar, Crus seu Columna fornicis, (F.) Pilier anterieur, and posteriorly by two similar prolongations, called posterior pillars or crura. See Achicolum, and Vault.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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