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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) hippocampus
a curved ridge in the lateral ventricles of the mammalian brain: part of the limbic system.

Etymology: (1600–10; < L < Gk hippókampos=hippo-hippo - +kámpos sea monster)

Definition of 'HIPPOCAMPUS'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) hippocampus
a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories

2. (noun) Hippocampus, genus Hippocampus
seahorses

Definition of 'HIPPOCAMPUS'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) HIPPOCAMPUS
a fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune

2. (noun) HIPPOCAMPUS
a genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse

3. (noun) HIPPOCAMPUS
a name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar

Definition of 'HIPPOCAMPUS'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. HIPPOCAMPUS
A curved elevation of gray matter extending the entire length of the floor of the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle. The hippocampus, subiculum, and DENTATE GYRUS constitute the hippocampal formation. Sometimes authors include the ENTORHINAL CORTEX in the hippocampal formation.

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