mammillary body

Preferred Label : mammillary body;

Uberon definition : One of two hemispherical bulges on the base of the posterior hypothalamus (Butler and Hodos, Comparative Vertebrate Neuroanatomy, 2nd ed., 2005, pg 455).;

Uberon synonym : corpus mamillare;

Uberon related term : mammillary area;

Uberon broad term : MMB;

Details

Origin ID

0002206;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Entire mammillary body (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Mammillary Bodies [MeSH concept]
- Mammillary Bodies [MeSH Descriptor]
- Mammillary body [FMA entity]
- Mammillary body structure (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- mammillary bodies [SNOMED Notion]
- mammillary body [Radlex concept]
Uberon cross reference
- Entire mammillary body (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Mamillary Body [NCIt concept]
- Mammillary body [FMA entity]
contributes to morphology of
- diencephalon [UBERON concept]
has part
- lateral mammillary nucleus [UBERON concept]
- mammillary axonal complex [UBERON concept]
- medial mammillary nucleus [UBERON concept]
- supramammillary nucleus [UBERON concept]
- tuberomammillary nucleus [UBERON concept]
part of
- medial zone of hypothalamus [UBERON concept]
- posterior hypothalamic region [UBERON concept]

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