Hippocampus is a seahorse-shaped structure in the brain’s limbic system, essential for forming new memories and spatial navigation. As a noun, it refers specifically to this neural region, typically discussed in neuroscience and anatomy contexts. The term combines hippocampus’s Greek roots with modern anatomical usage, and is used in both clinical and research discourse.
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