Definitions for foramens

foramens fo·ra·men

Spelling: [fuh-rey-muh n]
IPA: /fəˈreɪ mən/

Foramens is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 440 anagrams from letters in foramens (aefmnors).

Definitions for foramens

noun

  1. an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.

Origin of foramens

1665-75; Latin forāmen hole, opening, equivalent to forā(re) to bore2 “pierce” + -men resultative noun suffix

Examples for foramens

The Y-shaped aperture thus formed, which leads from the cerebral hemispheres into the third ventricle, is the foramen of Munro.

Eirunde Loch would be better represented by its anatomical equivalent, foramen ovale.

The reduction in size of the foramen of Munro above mentioned is, to a large extent, caused by the growth of the corpora striata.

To this they are indebted for their name Foraminifera, from foramen, a hole.

Micropyle, answering to the foramen or orifice of the ovule.

The closure of the foramen is brought about by adhesion of the two septa.

The chalaza is at the insertion or base, the foramen or orifice is at the apex.

No foramen between third and fourth trochleae of tarso-metatarsus.

The opening into the cerebral rudiment becomes the foramen of Munro.

The foramen of Munro becomes very much narrowed and reduced to a mere slit.

Word Value for foramens
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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