CARINA FORNICIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carina fornicis mean? 

• CARINA FORNICIS (noun)
  The noun CARINA FORNICIS has 1 sense:

1. ridge on the lower surface of the fornix of the brain

  Familiarity information: CARINA FORNICIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARINA FORNICIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ridge on the lower surface of the fornix of the brain

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("carina fornicis" is a kind of...):

carina (any of various keel-shaped structures or ridges such as that on the breastbone of a bird or that formed by the fused petals of a pea blossom)

Holonyms ("carina fornicis" is a part of...):

fornix; trigonum cerebrale (an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies)