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Hippocampus

"Hippocampus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A curved elevation of GRAY MATTER extending the entire length of the floor of the TEMPORAL HORN of the LATERAL VENTRICLE (see also TEMPORAL LOBE). The hippocampus proper, subiculum, and DENTATE GYRUS constitute the hippocampal formation. Sometimes authors include the ENTORHINAL CORTEX in the hippocampal formation.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hippocampus" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hippocampus" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 324 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 24 publications in 2014
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