fornix

Words with a similar base: fornix

'fornix'

[fornix.n.01] as in: generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space)

'fornix'

[fornix.n.02] as in: 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