Term Name: | mammillary body |
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Synonyms: | corpora mamillaria, corpora mammillaria, corpus mamillare, corpus mamillaris, corpus mammillare, mammillary area, MMB |
Definition: | One of two hemispherical bulges on the base of the posterior hypothalamus (Butler and Hodos, Comparative Vertebrate Neuroanatomy, 2nd ed., 2005, pg 455). |
Ontology: | Uberon Ontology [UBERON:0002206] |