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.