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cornu Ammonis
Ammonite Am"mon*ite, n. [L. cornu Ammonis born of Ammon; L. Ammon, Gr. ? an appellation of Jupiter, as represented with the horns of a ram. It was originally the name of an. Egyptian god, Amun.] (Paleon.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis.
Mammonish
Mammonish Mam"mon*ish, a. Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon. --Carlyle.
Mammonism
Mammonism Mam"mon*ism, n. Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness. --Carlyle.
Mammonist
Mammonist Mam"mon*ist, n. A mammonite.

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- C-shaped resembling a ram's horn. This led to its description of cornu ammonis meaning Amun's horn, whose initials were used to name the subfields CA1-CA4...
- presubiculum, and the subiculum. The CA subfields use the initials of cornu ammonis, an earlier name of the hippocampus. There are four hippocampal subfields...
- Ludwig Döderlein in 1923. The type species is Anurognathus ammoni. The specific name ammoni honours the Bavarian geologist Ludwig von Ammon, from whose...
- Dentate gyrus Cornu ammonis (CA fields) Cornu ammonis area 1 (CA1) Cornu ammonis area 2 (CA2) Cornu ammonis area 3 (CA3) Cornu ammonis area 4 (CA4) Amygdala...
- The trisynaptic circuit or trisynaptic loop is a relay of synaptic transmission in the hippocampus. The trisynaptic circuit is a neural circuit in the...
- Pliny the Elder (d. 79 AD near Pompeii) called fossils of these animals ammonis cornua ("horns of Ammon") because the Egyptian god Ammon (Amun) was typically...
- decade later his fellow Parisian, the surgeon de Garengeot, used cornu Ammonis – horn of Amun, after the ancient Egyptian god who was often represented...
- horns. The regions of the hippocampus in the brain are called the cornu ammonis – literally "Amun's Horns", due to the horned appearance of the dark and...
- persons which can be benign but is often a precursor of skin cancer Cornu ammonis, a part of the hippocampus of the brain Cornu coccygeum, one of two upward...
- Bennett, S. C. (2007). "A second specimen of the pterosaur Anurognathus ammoni". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 81 (4): 376–98. Bibcode:2007PalZ...81..376B...