Definitions for fornix

fornix for·nix

Spelling: [fawr-niks]
IPA: /ˈfɔr nɪks/

Fornix is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in fornix (finorx).

Definitions for fornix

noun

  1. any of various arched or vaulted structures, as an arching fibrous formation in the brain.

Origin of fornix

1675-85; Latin: vault, arch

Examples for fornix

Its apex, where the two choroid plexuses blend with each other, lies just behind the anterior pillars of the fornix.

The levator palpebrae superioris is the highest, and passes forward to the superior tarsal plate and fornix of the conjunctiva.

fornix, little arched scales in the throat of some corollas, as of Comfrey.

The fornix is an arch-shaped band of nerve fibres extending in the antero-posterior direction.

fornix, for′niks, n. something resembling an arch: an arched formation of the brain.

Frequent allusions to the stench exhaled from the mouth of a fornix are made in the Roman authors.

Each peduncle joins, along with the taenia semicircularis, the anterior pillar of the fornix of its own side.

If the septum be now removed, the anterior part of the fornix is brought into view.

The corpus callosum is not formed till after the anterior commissure and fornix.

These commissures are the anterior commissure, the fornix, and the corpus callosum, the two latter being peculiar to Mammalia.

Word Value for fornix
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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