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Foramen  n.  (pl. L. foramina, E. foramines)  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.






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"Foramen" Quotes from Famous Books



... been met with at the hip-joint. It will suffice if we divide them into those in which the head of the femur passes backward, and comes to rest on the dorsum ilii, or in the vicinity of the great sciatic notch; and those in which it passes forward and comes to rest in the obturator foramen, or on the pubes ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... The typical negro's nervous system is modeled a little different from the Caucasian and somewhat like the ourang outang. The medullary spinal cord is larger and more developed than in the white man, but less so than in the monkey tribes. The occipital foramen, giving exit to the spinal cord, is a third longer, says Cuvier, in proportion to its breadth, than in the Caucasian, and is so oblique as to form an angle of 30 deg. with the horizon, yet not so oblique as in the simiadae, but sufficiently so to throw the ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various



Words linked to "Foramen" :   foramen magnum, hiatus, foramen of Monro, interventricular foramen, opening, gap



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