Columns of fornix

Columns of fornix
Brain: Columns of fornix
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Diagram of the fornix.
Latin columna fornicis
Gray's subject #189 838
NeuroNames hier-251

The columns (anterior pillars; fornicolumns) of the fornix arch downward in front of the interventricular foramen and behind the anterior commissure, and each descends through the gray substance in the lateral wall of the third ventricle to the base of the brain, where it ends in the corpus mammillare.

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v · d · eHuman brain, cerebrum, Interior of the cerebral hemispheres, white matter: commissural fibers and septum (TA A14.1.09.241–271, 569–571, GA 9.828, 838–840)
Corpus callosum

Genu · Splenium · Tapetum · Rostrum

Archicortex: Indusium griseum
Lamina terminalis
Fornix
Columns of fornix · Crus of fornix · Commissure of fornix
Septum pellucidum
Septal nuclei (Medial septal nucleus, Subfornical organ) · Cave of septum pellucidum

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