Foramen — A natural opening. Although a foramen is usually through bone, it can be an opening through other types of tissue, as with the foramen ovale. * * * An aperture or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure. SYN: trema (1). [L. an… … Medical dictionary
Foramen transversarium — Infobox Bone Name = Foramen transversarium Latin = foramen transversarium GraySubject = 21 GrayPage = 98 Caption = A cervical vertebra. (Foramen transversarium labeled at upper left.) Caption2 = First cervical vertebra, or atlas. (Foramen… … Wikipedia
vertebrae — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. spine, spinal column, backbone, chine. Parts of the vertebra include: body, neural arch, vertebral foramen, lamina, transverse process, spinous process, zygapophysis, pedicle. Types of vertebrae in the human spinal column… … English dictionary for students
foramen transversarium — [TA] the passage in either process of a cervical vertebra that, in the upper six vertebrae, transmits the vertebral vessels; it is small or may be absent in the seventh … Medical dictionary
Cervical vertebrae — Bone: Cervical vertebrae Vertebral column … Wikipedia
Lumbar vertebrae — Infobox Bone Name = Lumbar vertebrae Latin = GraySubject = 23 GrayPage = 104 Caption = A typical lumbar vertebra Caption2 = Vertebral column. Precursor = System = Artery = median sacral artery Vein = Nerve = Lymph = MeshName = MeshNumber =… … Wikipedia
Vertebral foramen — Infobox Bone Name = Vertebral foramen Latin = foramen vertebrale GraySubject = 20 GrayPage = 96 Caption = A typical thoracic vertebra, viewed from above. (Vertebral foramen is the large hole at the center.) Caption2 = A cervical vertebra.… … Wikipedia
Transverse foramen — Infobox Anatomy Name = PAGENAME Latin = foramen transversarium GraySubject = 21 GrayPage = 98 Caption = A cervical vertebra. (Foramen transversarium labeled at upper left.) Caption2 = First cervical vertebra, or atlas. (Foramen transversarium… … Wikipedia
Thoracic vertebrae — Infobox Bone Name = thoracic vertebrae Latin = vertebrae thoracales GraySubject = 22 GrayPage = 102 Caption = A typical thoracic vertebra Caption2 = Transverse section through the upper margin of the second thoracic vertebra. Origins = Insertions … Wikipedia
intervertebral foramen — n any of the openings that give passage to the spinal nerves from the vertebral canal and are formed by the juxtaposition of superior and inferior notches in the pedicles of contiguous vertebrae * * * foramen intervertebrale [TA] the passage… … Medical dictionary