Antonyms for hippocampus
ˌhɪp əˈkæm pəs; -paɪ, -pihip·pocam·pus

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1. hippocampusnoun

   a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories

   Synonyms:
   genus Hippocampus

2. Hippocampus, genus Hippocampusnoun

   seahorses

   Synonyms:
   genus Hippocampus

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. hippocampus

   Synonyms:
   Ammon's horn, olfactory brain

How to use hippocampus in a sentence?

1. Johnny Wowk:

   Each day my buddy the Hippocampus meets me at my front door and takes me out for a walk then rewards me with some new brain cells. -Johnny Wowk AKA Johnny The Walker

2. Wendy Suzuki:

   It [ stress ] actually makes certain brain areas smaller, people that have chronic stress have smaller parts of the brain that are important for memory. That part of the brain is called the hippocampus.

3. Naren Ramakrishna:

   We believe that even really low doses of radiation can result in impairment in hippocampus function long term, the dose that would’ve been delivered using X-rays would have been more than 10 times greater.

4. Steve Ramirez:

   [This finding suggests] that we can bias the hippocampus to come back online at a timepoint when we wouldnt expect it to be online anymore because the memory is too old, odor can act as a cue to reinvigorate or reenergize that memory with detail.

5. Huda Akil:

   When Robert [King] tells you that he gets disoriented physically, I can tell him that people who are chronically depressed have a shrunken hippocampus, and that that affects your ability to orient in space, in 3D.

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