Hippocampus proper

Hippocampus proper
Hippocampus location and regions in a human, coronal plane
Basic circuit of the hippocampus, shown using a modified drawing by Ramon y Cajal. DG: dentate gyrus. Sub: subiculum. EC: entorhinal cortex
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Identifiers
Latinhippocampus proprius, cornu Ammonis
NeuroNames182
TA98A14.1.09.327
TA25520
FMA62493
Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

The hippocampus proper refers to the actual structure of the hippocampus which is made up of four regions or subfields. The subfields CA1, CA2, CA3, and CA4 use the initials of cornu Ammonis, an earlier name of the hippocampus.