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Definition of Foramina
1. foramen [n] - See also: foramen
Medical Definition of Foramina
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Foramina
Literary usage of Foramina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physical Anthropology of the Lenape Or Delawares, and of the Eastern Indians by Aleš Hrdlička (1916)
"Middle lacerated foramina. Posterior lacerated foramina.—As repeatedly pointed
out by the writer on former occasions, the middle lacerated foramina are ..."
2. Anatomical Technology as Applied to the Domestic Cat: An Introduction to by Burt Green Wilder, Simon Henry Gage (1882)
"Table of the foramina and Canals of the Skull, the Bones enclosing them, ...
The foramina are enumerated, commencing at the caudal end of the skull, Fig. ..."
3. The Brain Considered Anatomically, Physiologically and Philosophically by Emanuel Swedenborg, Rudolph Leonhard Tafel (1882)
"D. THE FUNCTION OF THE LATERAL VENTRICLES AND OF THEIR foramina. 29. After the
spirit of the fibres has been properly coupled to the serum of the blood, ..."
4. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"It presents the foramen opticum, the groove for the cavernous sinus, the sphenoidal
fissure, the foramina, named respectively ..."
5. American Anthropologist by American Anthropological Association (1890)
"In another collection from ruins of the ancient Seven Cities of Cibola, near
Zuni, New Mexico, were sixty-one humeri, with twelve foramina, or 20 per cent.; ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1884)
"The neoplasm causing pressure in all directions, with accidental passage of
arachnoidal fluid through a few of the weaker foramina into the outgoing ..."
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