Crossword clues for foramen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foramen \Fo*ra"men\, n.; pl. L. Foramina, E. Foramines. [L., fr. forare to bore, pierce.] A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.
Foramen of Monro (Anat.), the opening from each lateral into the third ventricle of the brain.
Foramen of Winslow (Anat.), the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the peritoneum.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plural foramina, 1670s, from Latin foramen "hole, opening, aperture, orifice," from forare "to pierce" (see bore (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. (context anatomy English) an opening, an orifice; a short passage.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "foramen".
He squatted before them, washing the skull in the flowing water, and when he was finished, he ran a length of vine through the jagged hole in the cranium and out the foramen and wore the skull around his neck like an amulet.
The enhancement is placed subcutaneously near the foramen magnum, in a cushioned hyperimmune sheath.
Dart also noted that the foramen magnum, the opening for the spinal cord, was set toward the center of the base of the skull, as in human beings, rather than toward the rear, as in adult apes.
This was nothing more than a small propeller, or series of them, mounted in a tubular foramen wrought through the body of the aerostat, drawing in air at one end and forcing it out the other to generate thrust.
When you come to handle life and death as your daily business, your memory will of itself bid good-by to such inmates as the well-known foramina of the sphenoid bone and the familiar oxides of methyl-ethylamyl-phenyl-ammonium.
Let us return to the parietal foramen and the anomalous carnassial teeth of this Otaria: at the present rate we shall not have described half the Phocidae before we reach the Cape.
Holenbachian foramina, of the Heisenberg units there was no mention, was there?
Aside from anomalies in the positions of some cranial sutures and the mental foramina, the Tanu skull seemed almost completely humanoid.
The others are vascular foramina, holes for the vascular vessels that supply blood to bone and marrow.
In time, the pressure herniates the brain down through the foramen magnum.
More to the left and there could have been shock to the interventricular foramen and the temporal lobe.
Just in front of the foramen magnum, the hole through which the spinal cord leaves the brain, there was a gap between the sphenoid and occipital bones.
The brain stem narrows as it proceeds downward, until it passes out through an opening in the cranium, the foramen magnum ffoh-ray'men mag'rmm.