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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the hippocampus of the brain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the hippocampus.

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  • adjective Pertaining to the hippocampus.

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Examples

  • A false statement from a noncredible source that is at first not believed can gain credibility during the months it takes to reprocess memories from short-term hippocampal storage to longer-term cortical storage.

    Fair-Weather Civil Libertarians 2008

  • First, we found that action potentials in hippocampal neurons were initiated not only at the axon hillock, as in motor neurons, but also at a second site, which we inferred to be the apical dendrites.

    Eric R. Kandel - Autobiography 2001

  • Pang PT, Teng HK, Zaitsev E, Woo NT, Sakata K, et al. (2004) Cleavage of proBDNF by tPA/plasmin is essential for long-term hippocampal plasticity.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hongqi Xin et al. 2010

  • [4] In the brain structure, the hippocampus lies under the medial temporal lobe, It is sometimes grouped together with other structures such as the denate gyrus creating what is known as the hippocampal formation.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • [12] The brain structure, the hippocampus lies under the medial temporal lobe, It is sometimes grouped together with other structures such as the denate gyrus creating what is known as the hippocampal formation.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • [4] In the brain structure, the hippocampus lies under the medial temporal lobe, It is sometimes grouped together with other structures such as the denate gyrus creating what is known as the hippocampal formation.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • [12] The brain structure, the hippocampus lies under the medial temporal lobe, It is sometimes grouped together with other structures such as the denate gyrus creating what is known as the hippocampal formation.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

  • AKAP5 rich regions, such as hippocampal dendrites, are also abundant in RII subunits

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michael Weisenhaus et al. 2010

  • Additionally, this imaging may suggest a pattern of cerebral atrophy such as hippocampal atrophy that suggests a higher risk of progression to a neurodegenerative dementia.

    JAMA current issue 2009

  • Additionally, this imaging may suggest a pattern of cerebral atrophy such as hippocampal atrophy that suggests a higher risk of progression to a neurodegenerative dementia.

    JAMA current issue 2009

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