mammillary body (English, noun)
expansion: mammillary body (plural mammillary bodies)
Senses:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: mammillary bodies
tags: plural