Definition of Hippocampi

1. Noun. (plural of hippocampus) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hippocampi

1. hippocampus [n] - See also: hippocampus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hippocampi

hippo flies
hippo fly
hippobosca
hippoboscid
hippoboscids
hippocalcin
hippocamp
hippocampal
hippocampal commissure
hippocampal fissure
hippocampal sclerosis
hippocampal sulcus
hippocampally
hippocampi (current term)
hippocampocortical
hippocamps
hippocampus
hippocampus major
hippocampus minor
hippocaust
hippocausts
hippocentaur
hippocentaurs
hippocephalic
hippocras
hippocrases
hippocrates
hippocratic

Literary usage of Hippocampi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1903)
"If the validity of this mode of subdividing the pallium be admitted, we must of necessity discard as useless and confusing the terms ' gyrus hippocampi' and ..."

2. On the Convolutions of the Human Brain by Alexander Ecker (1873)
"spreading itself out further backwards and downwards on the Substantia alba reticularis, covers the surface of the Gyrus hippocampi. 3. Gyrus hippocampi. ..."

3. The Soul of Man: An Investigation of the Facts of Physiological and by Paul Carus (1891)
"The gyrus hippocampi is accompanied by a smaller circumvolution, the gyrus dentatus, (or fascia dentata) which is almost bare of all gray substance. ..."

4. The Anatomy of the Human Body by John Bell, Charles Bell (1803)
"OF THE hippocampi, OR CORNUA AMMONIS, AND OF THE TENIA hippocampi. ... portions) forms the tenia hippocampi. ..."

5. Brain and Spinal Cord: A Manual for the Study of the Morphology and Fibre by Emil Villiger (1918)
"The gyrus hippocampi proceeds forward, becomes broader and, at the level of the substantia perforata anterior, bends around the front end of the fissura ..."

6. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"The hippocampi. (Fig. 331, 4.) The hippocampus or corn» ... Considered together, the two hippocampi somewhat closely resemble the uterine cornua of the Cow. ..."

7. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"Modified from Edinger. and giving rise to the hippocampal region or cornu Ammonis, with the gyrus hippocampi, whose section is S-shaped, and the gyrus un- ..."

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