Usually means: Arch-like structure in anatomy.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word fornix:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. fornix: Merriam-Webster
  2. fornix: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fornix: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fornix: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fornix: Vocabulary.com
  6. fornix: Wordnik
  7. Fornix: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. fornix: Wiktionary
  9. fornix: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fornix: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. fornix: Dictionary.com
  12. Fornix (neuroanatomy), Fornix: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Fornix: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. fornix: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. fornix: Rhymezone
  16. Fornix: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. fornix: FreeDictionary.org
  18. fornix: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. fornix: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -fornix: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fornix (brain), fornix: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. fornix: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fornix: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Fornix (brain), fornix: Medical dictionary
  8. Fornix: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fornix: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fornix)

noun:  (anatomy) An archlike or vaulted structure or fold:
noun:  The junction where the conjunctiva lining the eyelid meets the conjunctiva overlying the sclera.
noun:  (neuroanatomy) A triangular area of white matter in the mammalian brain beneath the corpus callosum and between the hippocampus and the hypothalamus.
noun:  The vaulted upper part of the vagina surrounding the uterine cervix.

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