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transforaminal

transforaminal adjective: through the foramen.

Adjective

transforaminal (not comparable)

  1. Through the foramen.
    • The purpose of this paper is to compare the clinical and radiological results of local bone grafts with a cage to morselized impacted bone grafts without cage, in patients undergoing transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) surgery.2015 August 19, Chaoliang Lv et al., “Comparative effectiveness of two different interbody fusion methods for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: cage versus morselized impacted bone grafts”, in...

Origin of transforaminal

From trans- + foraminal.

Questions about transforaminal

What does transforaminal mean?
Transforaminal means through the foramen.
What part of speech is transforaminal?
Transforaminal is an adjective.

Words near transforaminal in the dictionary

  1. transfollicular
  2. transfolx
  3. transfontanelar
  4. transfontanellar
  5. transfontanelle
  6. transforaminal
  7. transforate
  8. transforated
  9. transforates
  10. transforating
  11. transforation

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