4 example sentences using foramen.
Foramen used in a sentence
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
a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure
See also: hiatus