fornix

fornix has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
• n.. Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
• n.. 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
• n.. generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space)