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/
- (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.
- The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit.
- 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist[1]:
- 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]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- “foramen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “foramen”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (noun-forming suffix).
Pronunciation[edit]
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).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
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 of foramen in other languages
References[edit]
- “foramen”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; 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
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “foramen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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