Medical Definition of Lacerated foramen

1. An irregular aperture, filled with cartilage (basilar cartilage) in the living, located between the apex of the petrous part of the temporal bone, the body of the sphenoid, and the basilar part of the occipital bones. Several structures pass along the margins of the foramen in a nearly horizontal direction but no structures pass through vertically. Synonym: foramen lacerum medium, lacerated foramen, sphenotic foramen. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lacerated Foramen

lace-winged
lacebark
lacebarks
laced
laceless
lacelike
lacepod
lacer
lacerable
lacerable
lacerant
lacerate
lacerate
lacerated
lacerated
lacerated foramen (current term)
lacerates
lacerating
laceration
laceration
lacerations
lacerative
lacers
lacert
lacerta
Lacerta
Lacerta agilis
Lacerta viridis
lacertian
lacertid

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