The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fornix \For"nix\, n.; pl. Fornices. [L., an arch.] (Anat.)
An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of fornix English)
WordNet
n. generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space)
an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies [syn: trigonum cerebrale]
[also: fornices (pl)]
See fornix
Usage examples of "fornices".
On more careful study, they saw that, along the circle of surrounding mountains, other facades stood out on high against steep walls of lava, and at times they had to narrow their eyes to distinguish the carved stone from the stone shaped by Nature, and they could also make out sculpted capitals, fornices and arches, and superb colonnades.
Farther on, a more important massif was outlined, irregular in form, it, too, a hive of grottos, but of more geometric shape, like so many windows or doors, and in some instances from those fornices terraces extended, loggias, little balconies.