hippocampal

American  

[hip-uh-kam-puhl] / ˌhɪp əˈkæm pəl /

adjective

Anatomy.

1. of or relating to the hippocampus.

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Other Word Forms

• posthippocampal adjective

Etymology

Origin of hippocampal

First recorded in 1830–40; hippocamp(us) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

Animal studies have shown long-term effects on neuroinflammation and even changes in hippocampal structure.

From Science Daily • Oct. 13, 2025

Next the team will tackle the mouse hippocampal formation, which is important to neuroscience for its role in memory and neurological disease.

From Science Daily • May 9, 2024

The team utilized innovative techniques -- including in vitro reconstructions of hippocampal subregions and microfluidic tunnels for single axon communication -- to observe spontaneous spindle waves in isolated hippocampal neurons.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024

Importantly, sharp wave-ripples are known to be made up the firing of hippocampal "place cells" in a specific order that encodes every room we enter, and each arm of a maze entered by a mouse.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024

Rhinencephalon designates the regions which are pre-eminently olfactory in function: the olfactory bulb, its peduncle, the tuberculum olfactorium and locus perforatus, the pyriform lobe, the paraterminal body, and the whole hippocampal formation.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Ellis, Havelock