Mammillary body

System Nervous
SNOMED CT 279306001

Mammillary body

Definition

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

Also known as corpus mamillare — per UBERON

The Mammillary body is a part of the Nervous.

Also identified as