Meanings
nounpostsubiculum (plural postsubicula)
plural postsubicula
- medicineThe dorsal part of the presubiculum.
In addition to hippocampal inputs, the medial mammillary nuclei receive projections from the rostral subiculum, and the lateral mammillary nuclei receive projections from the pre-, para-, and postsubicula.
2018, Jill B. Rich, “Mammillary Bodies”, in Jeffrey S. Kreutzer, John DeLuca, Bruce Caplan, editors, Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2nd edition, Springer International Publishing AG, →ISBN, page 2076
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