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
Located near the midpoint of the supraorbital margin is a small opening called the supraorbital foramen.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
A small foramen exists at the mid-length of the tibio-fibula.
From Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William E. Duellman
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
Blood vessels and nerves enter the bone through the nutrient foramina to nourish and innervate bones.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
These parallel the vertebral arteries and travel through the transverse foramina of 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 specific characters are: Sphenorbital fissure present; incisive foramina posterior to infraorbital canal; anterior prism of P4 rounded; interparietal relatively small; lambdoidal suture straight in region of interparietal, in Utah specimens.
From The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. by Stephen D. Durrant
