Word Meanings - FORAMEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra. Foramen of Monro , the opening from each lateral into the third ventricle of the brain. -- Foramen of Winslow , the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the

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A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra. Foramen of Monro , the opening from each lateral into the third ventricle of the brain. -- Foramen of Winslow , the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the peritoneum.

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• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• OMENTUM
  A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploön. Note: The great, or gastrocolic, omentum forms, in most mammals, a great sac, which is attached to the stomach and transverse colon, is
• BRAIN
  The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord,
• GENERALIZED
  Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.
• GENERALIZABLE
  Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• GENERALTY
  Generality. Sir M. Hale.
• THIRDLY
  In the third place. Bacon.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• FENESTRATE
  Having transparent spots, as the wings of certain butterflies. (more info) 1. Having numerous openings; irregularly reticulated; as, fenestrate membranes; fenestrate fronds.
• OPEN
  1. Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures
• OPEN-MOUTHED
  Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• GENERALITY
  1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• SICK-BRAINED
  Disordered in the brain.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
  Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.