Foramen Definition

Foramen Sentence Examples

• In the cervical region the ribs are much reduced, fused with their verte brae and enclosing the transverse canal or foramen.

• Eventually, when the right and left feet of the coracoids overlap each other, the anterior sternal spine contains a foramen.

• Near the base of the precoracoidal process is a small foramen for the passage of the nervus supracoracoideus.

• The acetabulum is completely surrounded by these three bones, but its cup always retains an open foramen; from its posterior rim arises the strong antitrochanter.

• This primitive condition occurs only in the Odontornithes, Ratitae and Tinami; in all others this notch becomes converted into a foramen ischiadicum, through which pass the big stems of the ischiadic nerves and most of the bloodvessels of the hind-limb.