Anatomy study note · Head and neck

Hippocampus

A part of the cerebral cortex derived from the hippocampal cortex of the medial wall of the developing hemisphere, lying in the floor of the inferior horn of the lateral ventricle.

Key points

• From the hippocampal cortex (medial wall of the telencephalon).
• Follows the choroid fissure; ends in the inferior horn.
• Upper part = indusium griseum (above the corpus callosum).
• Cortex = grey matter on the surface, white matter beneath.
• CNS myelin: oligodendrocytes.

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Written from

• Inderbir Singh’s Human Embryology, ch. 17, PDF pp. 340–341
• BRS Cell Biology & Histology, 7th ed., ch. 9, PDF pp. 163, 169–170

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