Noun fornix has 2 senses
  1. fornix - generally any arch shaped structure (but often it refers to the arched roof of an anatomical space)
    --1 is a kind of
    body part
  2. fornix, trigonum cerebrale - an arched bundle of white fibers at the base of the brain by which the hippocampus of each hemisphere projects to the contralateral hippocampus and to the thalamus and mamillary bodies
    --2 is a kind of fiber bundle, fibre bundle, fascicle, fasciculus
    --2 is a part of limbic system, visceral brain, limbic brain
    --2 has parts: carina fornicis
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