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Hippocampus, a Rare card
The hippocampus, also hippocampus proper, is a major component of the brain of humans and many other vertebrates.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 90
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 186
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 220,000
Power 186 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In the human brain the hippocampus, the dentate gyrus, and the subiculum are components of the hippocampal formation located in the limbic system.
- The hippocampus plays important roles in the consolidation of information from short-term memory to long-term memory, and in spatial memory that enables navigation.
- In humans and other primates the hippocampus is located in the archicortex, one of the three regions of allocortex, in each hemisphere with direct neural projections to, and reciprocal indirect projections from the neocortex.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hippocampus article was read about 220,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 90 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Hippocampus
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hippocampus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Henry Vandyke Carter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

