foramen
/fəˈɹeɪ.mɛn/US/fəˈɹeɪ.mən/
foramen noun: an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.
Noun
foramen (plural foramina or foramens)
- An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.
- The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit.
- There is — as I have explained — a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertebrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening the foramina through which the nerve roots emerge.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019
foramen meaning in Tamil and Arabic
foramen in Tamil
- துவாரம், எலும்புத் துளை, துளை, குடையம்
foramen in Arabic
- an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
- ثُقْبَة ṯuqba
Examples of foramen in a sentence
- The transverse process protrudes between the cranial and caudal openings of the foramen transversarium.
- There is no postparietal foramen (Figs 2A and 3A, S1 Fig ).
- The pudendal nerve exits via greater sciatic foramen and enters perineum via the lesser sciatic foramen.
Forms of foramen
| plural | foramina |
|---|---|
| plural | foramens |
Origin of foramen
Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (nominal suffix).
Words formed from foramen
Phrases with foramen
Words that rhyme with foramen
- Bremen
- gravamen
- layman
- caiman
- Damon
- Neman
- flamen
- flehmen
- Grand Cayman
- Little Cayman
- neuroforamen
- representamen
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Questions about foramen
- What does foramen mean?
- Foramen means an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.
- What is foramen in Tamil?
- Foramen in Tamil is துவாரம், எலும்புத் துளை, துளை. See Foramen meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is foramen?
- Foramen is a noun.
- How do you pronounce foramen?
- Foramen is pronounced /fəˈɹeɪ.mɛn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of foramen?
- The plural of foramen is foramina.
Words near foramen in the dictionary
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