foramen

English

Etymology

Borrowed fromLatinforāmen(“aperture or opening produced by boring”),fromforō(“to pierce or bore”)+‎-men(nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key):/fəˈɹeɪ.mɛn/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• (General American)IPA^(key):/fəˈɹeɪ.mən/
• Rhymes:-eɪmən

Noun

foramen(pluralforaminaorforamens)

1. (anatomy)Anopening,anorifice,or a shortpassage,especially in abone.

   Hyponyms:alar foramen,foramen cecum,foramen magnum,foramen of Magendie,foramen of Monro,foramen of Morgagni,foramen of Winslow,foramen ovale,foramen triosseum,neuroforamen,parietal foramen,sphenopalatine foramen

   The skull contains a number offoraminathrough which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit.

   • 1925July –1926May,A[rthur] Conan Doyle,“(please specify the chapter number)”,inThe Land of Mist(eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia:Project Gutenberg Australia,published April 2019:

     That is better! There is - as I have explained - a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertebrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening theforaminathrough which the nerve roots emerge.

Derived terms

• foramen spinosum
• foraminal
• foraminate
• foraminous
• infraorbital foramen
• jugular foramen
• mental foramen
• obturator foramen
• optic foramen
• stylomastoid foramen
• zygomaticofacial foramen
• zygomaticotemporal foramen

Translations

an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone

• Catalan:foramenm,forat(ca)m
• French:foramen(fr)m
• German:Foramenn
• Macedonian:о́творm(ótvor),ду́пка(mk)f(dúpka)
• Polish:otwór(pl)
• Russian:отве́рстие(ru)n(otvérstije)
• Spanish:foramen(es)m

See also

• meatus

References

• “foramen”,inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
• “foramen”,inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster,1996–present.

Anagrams

• Foreman,foreman,name for

Latin

Etymology

Fromforō(“to pierce or bore”)+‎-men(noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/foˈraː.men/,[fɔˈräːmɛn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/foˈra.men/,[foˈräːmen]

Noun

forāmenn(genitiveforāminis);third declension

1. (Classical Latin,rare)anopeningorapertureproduced byboring;ahole
2. (transferred sense,Late Latin)anopening,hole,cave

   Synonym:caverna

Inflection

Third-declensionnoun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	forāmen	forāmina
genitive	forāminis	forāminum
dative	forāminī	forāminibus
accusative	forāmen	forāmina
ablative	forāmine	forāminibus
vocative	forāmen	forāmina

Derived terms

• forāmen acūs
• forāminātus(adjective)
• forāminōsus(adjective)

Related terms

• forātus
• forō

Descendants

Descendants

• Asturian:furame;furacu,buracu,furáu
• Catalan:forat
• →English:foramen
• →Italian:forame
• Galician:furaco
• Portuguese:buraco;→forame,forâmen

→Romanian:foramen

• →Spanish:foramen

References

• “foramen”,inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary,Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “foramen”,inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary,New York: Harper & Brothers
• foramenin Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis(augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• forameninGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français,Hachette.

Spanish

Etymology

BorrowedfromLatinforāmen(“aperture, opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/foˈɾamen/[foˈɾa.mẽn]
• Rhymes:-amen
• Syllabification:fo‧ra‧men

Noun

foramenm(pluralforámenes)

1. (anatomy)foramen

Derived terms

• foramen ciático mayor
• foramen espinoso
• foramen infraorbitario
• foramen intervertebral
• foramen magno
• foramen oval
• foramen redondo mayor
• foramen vertebral

Related terms

• foraminífero
• horadar
• perforar

Further reading

• “foramen”,inDiccionario de la lengua española[Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8,Royal Spanish Academy[Spanish:Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10