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Wikipedia (2024) Calcar avis.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcar_avis. Accessed 17 Aug 2024.
EXCERPT: Text and nomenclature modification consistent with NeuroNames.( NeuroNames-2012 ).
The calcarine spur (ccs), also known as the calcar avis or hippocampus minor, is an involution of the wall of the occipital horn of the lateral ventricle (olv) produced by the calcarine fissure (ccf) In clinical radiaology, itt is sometimes visible by ultrasonography, where it can resemble a clot.
the ccs was originally described by anatomists as the 'calcar avis', while the ridge running along the floor of the temporal horn of the lateral ventricle (tlv) was originally 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 that structure, the hippocampal formation (HPF) was described as 'pes hippocampi major', with the ccs being named' pes hippocampi minor'.
The renaming of the HPF as 'hippocampus major', and the ccs 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.
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