FORAMEN (foramina)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: foramina   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does foramen mean? 

• FORAMEN (noun)
  The noun FORAMEN has 1 sense:

1. a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure

  Familiarity information: FORAMEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORAMEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

foramen; hiatus

Hypernyms ("foramen" is a kind of...):

gap; opening (an open or empty space in or between things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foramen"):

foramen of Monro; interventricular foramen; Monro's foramen (the small opening (on both the right and left sides) that connects the third ventricle in the diencephalon with the lateral ventricle in the cerebral hemisphere)

foramen magnum (the large opening at the base of the cranium through which the spinal cord passes)

 Context examples 

A meningioma that affects the foramen magnum.

(Foramen Magnum Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation of the gene is associated with parietal foramina 2.

(ALX4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A meningioma that affects the jugular foramen.

(Jugular Foramen Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A neoplasm that affects the jugular foramen.

(Jugular Foramen Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare intracranial schwannoma that affects the jugular foramen.

(Jugular Foramen Schwannoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The portion of the dental pulp cavity in the root of a tooth, extending from the pulp chamber to the apical foramen.

(Canalis Radicis Dentis, NCI Thesaurus)

It is typically located in the lateral ventricles in the region of the foramen of Monro.

(Central Neurocytoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

A meningioma that affects the anterior foramen magnum.

(Anterior Foramen Magnum Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

The anterior aspect of the foramen magnum formed by the basilar part of the occipital bone.

(Anterior Foramen Magnum, NCI Thesaurus)

Cerebrospinal fluid flows from the lateral ventricles into the centrally third ventricle via the foramen of Monroe.

(Lateral Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)