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n. An opening or orifice, as in a bone or in the covering of the ovule of a plant.

n. an opening, an orifice; a short passage.

n. A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.

n. In anatomy and zoology, a hole or an opening; an orifice; a fissure; a short passage.

n. In botany, an opening of any kind; specifically, the orifice of the coats of the ovule.

n. See the adjectives.

n. The carotid canal itself.

n. Posterior, for the passage of a vein.

n. Of the medulla oblongata, a cul-de-sac forming the termination of the anterior median fissure behind the pons. Also called foramen cæcum of Vicq d'Azyr.

n. Of the tongue, a depression about the large middle circumvallate papilla.

n. Of the sphenoid bone, a hole in the greater wing of the sphenoid, or between this and the temporal bone, for the passage of the third division of the fifth cranial nerve. See cut under sphenoid.

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

"The first is a structure called the foramen ovale."

internal carotid foramen    obturator foramen    parietal foramen    supracoracold foramen    interorbital foramen    foramen incisivum    occipital foramen    foramen transversarium    ethmoidal foramina    internal auditory foramen   

foramina   

foraminate    foramen magnum    foramen ovale   

fenestra    opening   

Daman    Damon    Haman    Lehmann    Philemon    Raman    Xiamen    bayman    cayman    daemon