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 canal then runs anteromedially within the bony base of the skull, and then turns upward to its exit in the floor of the middle cranial cavity, above the foramen lacerum.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
On the same surface is situated the sub-orbital foramen.
From Artistic Anatomy of Animals by ?douard Cuyer
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 ventricles are connected to the third ventricle by two openings called the interventricular foramina.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Blood vessels and nerves enter the bone through the nutrient foramina to nourish and innervate bones.
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
In comparing the ventral views of skulls note especially the size and location of incisive foramina and posterior palatine foramina as well as the breadth of mesopterygoid fossae.
From Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Apodemus peninsulae, with Description of a New Subspecies from North China by J. Knox Jones
