Foramen
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- alveolar foramina of maxilla
- anterior ethmoidal foramen
- aortic hiatus/foramen/aperture/opening
- condylar canal
- costotransverse foramen
- esophageal hiatus (aperture or opening)
- foramen cecum of frontal bone (blind/cecal foramen of frontal bone)
- foramen cecum of tongue (blind/cecal foramen of tongue)
- foramen lacerum
- foramen magnum
- foramen of Magnedie
- foramen ovale
- foramen rotundum
- foramen spinosum
- greater palatine foramen
- hyoglossal canal or foramen
- incisive/incisor/Stensen foramen
- inferior orbital fissure
- infraorbital foramen (canal)
- intervertebral foramen
- jugular foramen
- lacrimal foramen
- lesser/posterior palatine foramen
- mandibular foramen (canal)
- mastoid foramen
- mental foramen
- morgagni foramen
- obturator foramen
- omental foramen (epiploic foramen, foramen of Winslow)
- optic canal (foramen)
- ostium primum (interatrial foramen primum)
- ostium secundum (interatrial foramen secundum)
- parietal foramen
- pleuroperitoneal hiatus (Bochdalek foramen)
- posterior ethmoidal foramen
- postglenoid foramen
- sacral foramina
- sphenoid foramen ovale
- sphenoidal emissary foramen (venous/Vesalius foramen)
- sphenopalatine foramen
- sternal foramen
- stylomastoid foramen
- superior orbital fissure (sphenoidal formamen)
- supraorbital foramen (notch)
- transverse foramen; vertebroarterial foramen; foramen of transverse process
- vena caval foramen (caval opening of diaphragm, caval foramen)
- vertebral foramina
- zygomaticofacial foramen
Introduction
- An opening through a bone or membrane.
More General Terms
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995
