hippocampal

[ hip-uh-kam-puhl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Anatomy.

First recorded in 1830–40; hippocamp(us) + -al ¹

They then artificially increased the mice’s rate of hippocampal neurogenesis.

The hippocampal fissure persists with little modification all through the mammalian class.

The region of cerebrum thus developed is the so-called olfactory lobe and hippocampal formation.

In the reptilian cerebrum the hippocampal region, the pallium marginale, coexists in addition.

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