单词 | hippocampus minor |
释义 | > as lemmashippocampus minor b. In full †lesser hippocampus, †small hippocampus, hippocampus minor. A curved prominence on the medial wall of the posterior (occipital) horn of the lateral ventricle (now called the calcarine spur or calcar avis). Now historical and rare. [After French petit hippocampe and scientific Latin hippocampus minor (both in F. Vicq d'Azyr Traité d' anat. & physiol. (1786), the Latin word as hypocampus minor).] ΚΠ 1798 A. Bell Anatomia Britannica III. 26/1 The small hippocampi. 1800 A. Fyfe Compend. Anat. Human Body for Use Students II. iv. 18 In each of the Posterior Cornua there is an Elongation, which terminates in a point, and is called Ergot by the French..; or Hippocampus Minor, from its similarity to, and connection with, the substance termed Hippocampus Major. 1809 C. Bell Anat. Human Body (U.S. ed.) III. iii. 54 The lesser hippocampus, or colliculus,..has the same relation to the fornix which the greater hippocampus has. 1825 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 23 102 The small hippocampus extending behind into the digital cavity or posterior horn. 1859 Leisure Hour 18 Aug. 535/1 It seems strange that we should have an Hippocampus in our own brains: there are portions in the centre of that delicate structure which are called ‘the greater and lesser hippocampus’. 1903 P. C. Mitchell tr. E. Metchnikoff Nature of Man iii. 44 Such are the posterior lobe, the posterior cornu, and the lesser hippocampus. 2013 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110 10365/2 The third and most important difference was that only humans have a hippocampus minor. < as lemmas |
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