fornix
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space)
Types & categories
- body part hypernym
Sense 2 noun
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
Types & categories
- fiber bundle hypernym
Parts & wholes
- limbic system part holonym
- carina fornicis part meronym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | body part |
| 2 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | limbic system |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | carina fornicis |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fiber bundle |