1. Chronic cases can present the atrophy of the mammillary bodies. 2. Neuroanatomists have often categorized the mammillary bodies as part of the hypothalamus. 3. Christie found translucent mammillary surface ( several convex surfaces smoothly rounded ). 4. It forms botryoidal to mammillary clay-like masses. 5. It is five times thicker than the mammillary layer. 6. In spite of this the exact function of the mammillary bodies is still not clear. 7. Amnesia can be a result of disconnection of the mammillary bodies from the Papez circuit. 8. The mammillary is connected in the lumbar region with the back part of the superior articular process. 9. The superior, or upper tubercle is the mammillary process which connects with the superior articular process. 10. The costiform is lateral, the mammillary is superior ( cranial ), and the accessory is inferior ( caudal ).
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