Look up: Hippocampus

1. Hippocampus
   A seahorse-shaped structure located within the brain and considered an important part of the limbic system. It functions in learning, memory and emotion.
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2. Hippocampus
   part of the limbic system, it seems to provide a spatial map, useful in the event of a sudden need to escape from an unpleasant sensory experience.
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3. Hippocampus
   [n] - a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of gray matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle 2. [n] - seahorses
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4. Hippocampus
   Hippocampus: An area buried deep in the forebrain that helps regulate emotion and memory. Functionally, the hippocampus is part of the olfactory cortex, that part of the cerebral cortex essential to the sense of smell. Certain antidepressants (such as fluoxetine, or Prozac) influence the birth of ne...
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5. hippocampus
   Area of mammalian brain, and an important preparation for the study of neuronal plasticity. The hippocampus has been known since the 1950s to be important for long-term memory storage in humans and other mammals; it is essential for initial storing of long-term memory for a period of days to weeks before the memory trace is consolidated elsewhere. Also the site of long-term synaptic plasticity (see long-term potentiation) which is exhibited by defined synaptic pathways in the hippocampus.
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6. Hippocampus
   Hip`po·cam'pus noun [ Latin , the sea horse, Greek ... a hippocampus (in senses 1 and 2); 'i`ppos horse + ... to bend.] 1. (Class. Myth.) A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolp...
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7. hippocampus
   <anatomy> Area of mammallian brain and an important preparation for the study of synaptic plasticity. The hippocampus has been known since the 1950s to be important for long term memory storage in humans and other mammals, it is essential for initial storing of long-term memory for a period of...
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8. Hippocampus
   genus Hippocampus noun seahorses
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9. hippocampus
   noun a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories
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10. hippocampus
    (hip″o-kam´pәs) a curved elevation of gray matter on the floor of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle; it is an important functional component of the limbic system.
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11. Hippocampus
    • (n.) A genus of lophobranch fishes of several species in which the head and neck have some resemblance to those of a horse; -- called also sea horse. • (n.) A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirost...
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12. hippocampus
    (from the article `nervous system`) ...and learning. At first the neopallium expands to envelop the other brain structures. The archipallium becomes folded into a small area on the ...
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13. hippocampus
    hippocampus 1. A sea-horse, having two fore-feet, and the body ending in a dolphin's or fish's tail, represented as drawing the chariot of Neptune and other sea-deities. 2. A genus of small fish having a head shaped somewhat like that of a horse; the sea-horse. 3. An area buried deep in the forebr...
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14. Hippocampus
    - part of the limbic system, it seems to provide a spatial map, useful in the event of a sudden need to escape from an unpleasant sensory experience.
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15. Hippocampus
    Hippocampus (the Sea-Horse) is a genus of fish closely allied to the pipe-fish, of singular construction and peculiar habits. The upper parts look rather like a horse's head and neck in miniature. When swimming they maintain a vertical position. They are generally about 15 centimetres to 25 centimet...
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16. hippocampus
    Type: Term Pronunciation: hip′ō-kam′pŭs Definitions: 1. The complex, internally convoluted structure that forms the medial margin ('hem') of the cortical mantle of the cerebral hemisphere, bordering the choroid fissure of the lateral ventricle, and composed of two gyri (Ammon h...
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17. hippocampus
    Greek hippokampos = a sea-horse, hence, the curled shape of the hippocampus in coronal section; adjective - hippocampal.
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18. Hippocampus
    A seahorse-shaped structure located within the brain and considered an important part of the limbic system. One of the most studied areas of the brain, it functions in learning, memory, and emotion.
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19. Hippocampus
    The `hippocampus` is a major component of the brains of humans and other mammals. It belongs to the limbic system and plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation. Like the cerebral cortex, with which it is closely associ...
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20. Hippocampus
    (disambiguation) The `hippocampus` is an anatomical subdivision of the brain. For much of the 19th century it was known as the hippocampus major, while the adjacent calcar avis was described as the hippocampus minor. A dispute about the calcar avis in the 1860s was satirised as the Great Hippocampus Question. `Hippocampus` may also refer to:
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