foramen

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) +‎ -men (nominal suffix). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fəˈɹeɪ.mɛn/ (General American) IPA(key): /fəˈɹeɪ.mən/ Rhymes: -eɪmən === Noun === foramen (plural foramina or foramens) (anatomy) An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone. 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 ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === See also === meatus === References === “foramen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. “foramen”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. === Anagrams === Foreman, foreman, name for == Latin == === Etymology === From forō (“to pierce or bore”) +‎ -men (noun-forming suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɔˈraː.mɛn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [foˈraː.men] === Noun === forāmen n (genitive forāminis); third declension (Classical Latin, rare) an opening or aperture produced by boring; a hole (transferred sense, Late Latin) an opening, hole, cave Synonym: caverna ==== Inflection ==== Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem). ==== Derived terms ==== forāmen acūs forāminātus (adjective) forāminōsus (adjective) ==== Related terms ==== forātus forō ==== Descendants ==== === References === “foramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “foramen”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "foramen", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “foramen”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. == Spanish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture, opening”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /foˈɾamen/ [foˈɾa.mẽn] Rhymes: -amen Syllabification: fo‧ra‧men === Noun === foramen m (plural forámenes) (anatomy) foramen ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “foramen”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025