Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fornix

Fornix , noun

[Latin, an arch.]

(a)
(Anatomy) An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.
(b)
(Anatomy) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.