2015/01/09 by Shyamal C. Bir, Sudheer Ambekar, Sunil L. Kukreja +1 · 1 citation
Neuroscience · #Memory and Neural Mechanisms #Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research #Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling
paper · pdf · doi:10.3171/2014.11.jns132402
openalex publication_date 2015/01/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Julius Caesar Arantius is one of the pioneer anatomists and surgeons of the 16th century who discovered the different anatomical structures of the human body. One of his prominent discoveries is the hippocampus. At that time, Arantius originated the term hippocampus, from the Greek word for seahorse (hippos ["horse"] and kampos ["sea monster"]). Arantius published his description of the hippocampus in 1587, in the first chapter of his work titled De Humano Foetu Liber. Numerous nomenclatures of this structure, including "white silkworm," "Ammon's horn," and "ram's horn" were proposed by different scholars at that time. However, the term hippocampus has become the most widely used in the literature.