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cornu Ammonis
Ammonite Am"mon*ite, n. [L. cornu Ammonis born of Ammon; L. Ammon, Gr. ? an appellation of Jupiter, as represented with the horns of a ram. It was originally the name of an. Egyptian god, Amun.] (Paleon.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.
Mammonish
Mammonish Mam"mon*ish, a. Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon. --Carlyle.
Mammonism
Mammonism Mam"mon*ism, n. Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness. --Carlyle.
Mammonist
Mammonist Mam"mon*ist, n. A mammonite.

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- or subfields. The subfields CA1, CA2, and CA3 use the initials of cornu Ammonis, an earlier name of the hippocampus. There are four hippocampal subfields...
- some cross-sections, a semicircle in others. Next come a series of Cornu Ammonis areas: first CA4 (which underlies the dentate gyrus), then CA3, then a...
- Ludwig Döderlein in 1923. The type species is Anurognathus ammoni. The specific name ammoni honours the Bavarian geologist Ludwig von Ammon, from whose...
- Dentate gyrus Cornu ammonis (CA fields) Cornu ammonis area 1 (CA1) Cornu ammonis area 2 (CA2) Cornu ammonis area 3 (CA3) Cornu ammonis area 4 (CA4) Amygdala...
- The trisynaptic circuit or trisynaptic loop is a relay of synaptic transmission in the hippocampus. The circuit was initially described by the neuroanatomist...
- Pliny the Elder (d. 79 AD near Pompeii) called fossils of these animals ammonis cornua ("horns of Ammon") because the Egyptian god Ammon (Amun) was typically...
- decade later his fellow Parisian, the surgeon de Garengeot, used cornu Ammonis – horn of Amun, the ancient Egyptian god who was often represented as having...
- Bennett, S. C. (2007). "A second specimen of the pterosaur Anurognathus ammoni". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 81 (4): 376–98. doi:10.1007/bf02990250....
- horns. The regions of the hippocampus in the brain are called the cornu ammonis – literally "Amun's Horns", due to the horned appearance of the dark and...
- have ****ociated spiral s**** with the deity Ammon, referring to them as ammonis cornua (horns of Ammon) in his book Naturalis Historia. Considering the...