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Foramen   /fərˈeɪmən/   Listen
Foramen

noun
(pl. L. foramina, E. foramines)
1.
A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure.  Synonym: hiatus.



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... exhibit an anomaly which is extremely rare among normal individuals—the olecranon foramen, a perforation in the head of the humerus where it articulates with the ulna. This is normal in the ape and dog and is frequently found in the bones of prehistoric man and in some of the existing ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

... been met with at the hip-joint. It will suffice if we divide them into those in which the head of the femur passes backward, and comes to rest on the dorsum ilii, or in the vicinity of the great sciatic notch; and those in which it passes forward and comes to rest in the obturator foramen, or on the pubes ...
— Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition. • Alexander Miles

... The typical negro's nervous system is modeled a little different from the Caucasian and somewhat like the ourang outang. The medullary spinal cord is larger and more developed than in the white man, but less so than in the monkey tribes. The occipital foramen, giving exit to the spinal cord, is a third longer, says Cuvier, in proportion to its breadth, than in the Caucasian, and is so oblique as to form an angle of 30 deg. with the horizon, yet not so oblique as in the simiadae, but sufficiently so to throw the ...
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