foramen
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəˈɹeɪ.mɛn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /fəˈɹeɪ.mən/
- Rhymes: -eɪmən
Noun
[edit]foramen (plural foramina or foramens)
- (anatomy) An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.
- Hyponyms: alar foramen, foramen cecum, foramen magnum, foramen of Magendie, foramen of Monro, foramen of Morgagni, foramen of Winslow, foramen ovale, foramen triosseum, neuroforamen, parietal foramen, sphenopalatine foramen
- The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit.
- 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:
- That is better! 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “foramen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “foramen”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /foˈraː.men/, [fɔˈräːmɛn]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /foˈra.men/, [foˈräːmen]
Noun
[edit]forāmen n (genitive forāminis); third declension
- (Classical Latin, rare) an opening or aperture produced by boring; a hole
- (transferred sense, Late Latin) an opening, hole, cave
- Synonym: caverna
Inflection
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | forāmen | forāmina |
genitive | forāminis | forāminum |
dative | forāminī | forāminibus |
accusative | forāmen | forāmina |
ablative | forāmine | forāminibus |
vocative | forāmen | forāmina |
Derived terms
[edit]- forāmen acūs
- forāminātus (adjective)
- forāminōsus (adjective)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Descendants
References
[edit]- “foramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “foramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- foramen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- foramen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]foramen m (plural forámenes)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “foramen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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