mammillary body

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• noun anatomy One of a pair of small round bodies, located on the undersurface of the human brain, that act as a relay for impulses coming from the amygdalae and hippocampi to the thalamus, and (as part of the diencephalon) form part of the limbic system.

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• noun one of two small round structures on the undersurface of the brain that form the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix