foramen
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A patent foramen ovale - or PFO - which is a small hole between the top two chambers of the heart.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2025
It had a prominent pineal foramen -- a hole in the top of its head that many lizard species use to sense sunlight and judge the length of daylight hours.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 29, 2023
The shape of the opening at the base of its skull—the foramen magnum—suggested Sahelanthropus balanced its head on top of a vertical neck, similar to upright walkers such as today’s humans.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 24, 2022
The large opening in the anteroinferior hip bone between the ischium and pubis is the obturator foramen.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Pain seems to start from supra-orbital foramen now.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Lizards and iguanas, however, sport a single row of large holes above their teeth, called foramina, where blood vessels and nerves pass through.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 29, 2023
These veins arise from the base of the brain and the cervical region of the spinal cord, and flow largely through the intervertebral foramina in the cervical vertebrae.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
These ventricles are connected to the third ventricle by two openings called the interventricular foramina.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The sacral nerves emerge from the sacral foramina along the length of that unique vertebra.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The exoccipitals form the two condyles but there are no foramina for the 11th and 12th nerves, since these are not separate in modern Amphibia.
From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth) Eaton
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