Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
hippocampus .
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- noun Plural form of
hippocampus .
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Examples
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Here it lies along the concavity of the hippocampus, on the surface of which some of its fibers are spread out to form the alveus, while the remainder are continued as a narrow white band, the fimbria hippocampi, which is prolonged into the uncus of the hippocampal gyrus.
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The portions of Claire's brain most damaged by the virus are known as the hippocampi, two deep, seahorse-shaped structures where new memories are formed and others are retrieved.
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The portions of Claire's brain most damaged by the virus are known as the hippocampi, two deep, seahorse-shaped structures where new memories are formed and others are retrieved.
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The portions of Claire's brain most damaged by the virus are known as the hippocampi, two deep, seahorse-shaped structures where new memories are formed and others are retrieved.
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The AMA study discovered that 14- to 21-year-olds who abused alcohol had "about 10 percent smaller hippocampi" -- where the brain learns and remembers -- and that the harm might be irreversible.
Linda Flanagan: Why Adults Ignore Underage Drinking And Other Stories Linda Flanagan 2011
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The AMA study discovered that 14- to 21-year-olds who abused alcohol had "about 10 percent smaller hippocampi" -- where the brain learns and remembers -- and that the harm might be irreversible.
Linda Flanagan: Why Adults Ignore Underage Drinking And Other Stories Linda Flanagan 2011
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TRUDEAU: And people who exercised had larger hippocampi, a critical memory center.
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A famous study of London taxi drivers, conducted in the late 1990s, found that an area of the cabbies 'hippocampi was much larger than normal.
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She worries that, should our hippocampi begin to atrophy from a lack of use in navigation, the result could be a loss of memory and a growing long-term risk of dementia.
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For instance, one study showed that the hippocampus (really hippocampi, since there is one on each side of the brain, but convention is usually to refer to neural regions in the singular), of London taxi drivers is thicker after their training, which makes sense since the hippocampus is deeply involved with spatial memory.
Rick Hanson, Ph.D.: Neuropsychology: 5,000 Synapses in the Width of a Hair 2010
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