foramen – English noun declension

English noun forms of foramen

Noun: foramen
Singularforamen
Pluralforamina; foramens

Sample Sentences

  • The skull contains a number of foramina through which arteries, veins, nerves, and other structures enter and exit.
  • There is — as I have explained — a slight want of alignment in the cervical vertebrae which has, as I perceive it, the effect of lessening the foramina through which the nerve roots emerge. [1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:]

Nouns inflected like foramen

bitumen, discrimen, nomen, rumen, foramen, alar foramen, dictamen,

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (nominal suffix). See: Latin Nouns 'forāmen'.