Foramen in a sentence as a noun

A pinched nerve is layman lingo for compression of a spinal sensory nerve by a narrowed foramen as it exits the spinal cord.

Have you been screened for an abdominal aortic aneurysm, patent foramen ovals, or arteriovenous fistula?

This was nothing more than a small propeller, or series of them, mounted in a tubular foramen wrought through the body of the aerostat, drawing in air at one end and forcing it out the other to generate thrust.

" It ranges from "nothing to do here, looks like it was a TIA, patient demands to go home" to "We need to take your wife to the OR for an emergent craniotomy and clot removal to decompress the foramen of Monroe.

Foramen definitions

noun

a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure

See also: hiatus