hippocampus : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hippocampus	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hippocampus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hippocampus n 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 seahorses Synonym(s): Hippocampus, genus Hippocampus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hippocampus \Hip`pocam"pus\, n. [L., the sea horse, Gr. [?] a hippocampus* (in senses 1 and 2); "i`ppos horse + [?] to bend.] 1. (Class. Myth.) A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish ({Hippocampus brevirostris}), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune. --Fairholt.