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foramen

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7 lettersPronunciation /fəˈɹeɪ.mɛn/Part of speech nounSorted aefmnorStarts with FEnds with N0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

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

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (nominal suffix).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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