Hippocampus (disambiguation)
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Hippocampus may refer to:
- hippocampus, an anatomical subdivision of the brain, so named for its physical resemblance to a seahorse (genus Hippocampus (genus)). (For much of the 19th century it was known as the hippocampus major, while the adjacent calcar avis was described as the hippocampus minor. A dispute about the calcar avis in the 1860s was satirised as the Great Hippocampus Question.)
- Hippocampus (Dungeons & Dragons), a type of magical beast
- Hippocampus (genus), the seahorse genus
- Hippocampus (journal)
- Hippocampus (mythology) or hippocamp, a mythological sea-horse