Put
your hands into your brains. Now put your thumbs under your cerebral hemispheres
around
where your ears should be. The cerebral hemispheres curl in where they join the rest of the brain.
This curl is the outer surface of the hippocampus. Cut through it and you enter one of the fluid
cavities (ventricles) inside each cerebral hemisphere. To the early anatomists the raised pattern
it formed on the bottom of these cavities looked like a horse-headed sea-monster.
Thus this key part of us got called the Greek for one: hippocampus.
where your ears should be. The cerebral hemispheres curl in where they join the rest of the brain.
This curl is the outer surface of the hippocampus. Cut through it and you enter one of the fluid
cavities (ventricles) inside each cerebral hemisphere. To the early anatomists the raised pattern
it formed on the bottom of these cavities looked like a horse-headed sea-monster.
Thus this key part of us got called the Greek for one: hippocampus.