Tags: Anatomical Structure, Brain.
The hippocampus (named after its resemblance to the seahorse from the Greek hippos meaning horse and kampos meaning sea monster) is a major component of the brains of humans and other vertebrates. It belongs to the limbic system and plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory and spatial navigation. Humans and other mammals have two hippocampi one in each side of the brain.
