1. one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix; [syn: mamillary body, mammillary body, corpus mamillare]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mammillary body
n 1: one of two small round structures on the undersurface of
the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of
the fornix [syn: mamillary body, mammillary body,
corpus mamillare]