mammillary body (mammillary tubercle of hypothalamus)

Introduction

The small round paired nucleus that protrudes into the interpeduncular fossa from the posterior hypothalamus

Afferents

hippocampus via the fornix

Efferents

• anterior thalamic nuclei
• tegmentum mesencephali

More general terms

• CNS nucleus

Additional terms

• anterior thalamic nucleus
• fornix
• hippocampus (hippocampal formation)
• tegmentum mesencephali

Component of

• hypothalamus posterior