Calcar avis
{{Short description|Calcarine fissure wall}}
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| Caption = Posterior and inferior cornua of left lateral ventricle exposed from the side.
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| Caption2 = Coronal section through posterior cornua of lateral ventricle.
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The calcar avis, (calcarine spur) previously known as the hippocampus minor,{{cite journal|last1=Owen|first1=CM|last2=Howard|first2=A|last3=Binder|first3=DK|title=Hippocampus minor, calcar avis, and the Huxley-Owen debate.|journal=Neurosurgery|date=December 2009|volume=65|issue=6|pages=1098-104; discussion 1104-5|pmid=19934969|doi=10.1227/01.neu.0000359535.84445.0b|s2cid=19663125}} is an involution of the wall of the lateral ventricle's posterior horn produced by the calcarine fissure.{{Cite journal| last1 = Owen | first1 = C.| last2 = Howard | first2 = A.| last3 = Binder | first3 = D.| title = Hippocampus minor, calcar avis, and the Huxley-Owen debate| journal = Neurosurgery| volume = 65| issue = 6| pages = 1098–1104; discussion 1104–5| year = 2009| pmid = 19934969| doi = 10.1227/01.NEU.0000359535.84445.0B| s2cid = 19663125}}
It is sometimes visible on ultrasound{{cite journal |vauthors=DiPietro MA, Brody BA, Teele RL |title=The calcar avis: demonstration with cranial US |journal=Radiology |volume=156 |issue=2 |pages=363–4 |date=August 1985 |pmid=4011898 |doi= 10.1148/radiology.156.2.4011898|url=http://radiology.rsnajnls.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=4011898}} and can resemble a clot.{{cite journal |vauthors=Enríquez G, Correa F, Lucaya J, Piqueras J, Aso C, Ortega A |title=Potential pitfalls in cranial sonography |journal=Pediatr Radiol |volume=33 |issue=2 |pages=110–7 |date=February 2003 |pmid=12557067 |doi=10.1007/s00247-002-0836-y |s2cid=21436034 }}
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{{Further|Great Hippocampus Question#Minor hippocampus}}
The ridge was originally described by anatomists as the calcar avis, while the ridge running along the floor of the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle was described by various names, in particular as the hippocampus. A classical allusion was introduced later with the term pes hippocampi, which may date back to Diemerbroeck in 1672, introducing a comparison with the shape of the folded back forelimbs and webbed feet of the Classical hippocampus (Greek: ἱππόκαμπος), a sea monster with a horse's forequarters and a fish's tail. At a subsequent stage the hippocampus was described as pes hippocampi major, with the calcar avis being named pes hippocampi minor.{{harvnb|Duvernoy|2005}}
The renaming of the hippocampus as hippocampus major, and the calcar avis as hippocampus minor, has been attributed to Félix Vicq-d'Azyr systematising nomenclature of parts of the brain in 1786. While "hippocampus minor" was used interchangeably with "calcar avis" for much of the 19th century, for a few years after 1861 the former name was subjected to publicity and ridicule when the hippocampus minor became the centre of a dispute over human evolution between Thomas Henry Huxley and Richard Owen, satirised as the Great Hippocampus Question. The term hippocampus minor fell from use in anatomy textbooks, and was officially removed in the Nomina Anatomica of 1895, but still featured in the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1926, and appeared in general dictionaries as late as 1957.{{harvnb|Gross|1993|p=405}}
Additional images
File:Human brain right dissected lateral view description.JPG|Human brain right dissected lateral view
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- {{cite book| last1 = Duvernoy| first1 = HM| title = The Human Hippocampus| edition = 3rd| year = 2005| publisher = Springer-Verlag| location = Berlin| isbn = 3-540-23191-9| page = 1| chapter = Introduction| chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5GkpPjk5z1IC&q=Duvernoy,+The+Human+Hippocampus&pg=PP1}}
- {{cite journal| last = Gross| first = Charles G.| year = 1993| title = Hippocampus Minor and Man's Place in Nature: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Neuroanatomy| periodical = Hippocampus| volume = 3| issue = 4| pages = 403–416| doi = 10.1002/hipo.450030403| pmid = 8269033| s2cid = 15172043}}
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