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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fornix \For"nix\, n.; pl {Fornices}. [L., an arch.] (Anat.) a An arch or fold; as the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva. b Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fornix n : an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies
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