(n.) A small opening, perforation, or orifice; a fenestra.
Example Sentences:
(1) The complete facetectomy (36 observations) exposes the foramen well but has a little risk of destabilisation.
(2) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
(3) Progressive narrowing of the bulboventricular foramen is documented in four patients with single ventricle.
(4) CT brain scans showed an enlarged foramen magnum in the mother and daughter but magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed no brainstem abnormality in either.
(5) Since fractures of the foramen triosseum are usually not surgically repairable, they can be stabilized with coaptation splints.
(6) Furthermore, the long axis of the right and left atria was measured from the center of the apposed atrioventricular valve leaflets to the posterior atrial wall, and the sizes of the atrial chambers were defined using their widths at the prospective broadest points through the area of foramen ovale.
(7) The septum primum, as the valve of the foramen ovale, has been previously described as a mobile, echogenic line or dot in the left atrium.
(8) The authors described a fluoroscopic method of guiding percutaneous needle penetration of the foramen ovale.
(9) The average thickness of the corpus callosum at the level of the foramen of Monro was 6 mm in normal subjects and was reduced below 6 mm in 16 of the hydrocephalus patients.
(10) Hydrocephalus and valvular impaction of the cerebellum in the foramen magnum were demonstrated.
(11) With systole there is downward (caudal) flow of CSF in the aqueduct of Sylvius, the foramen of Magendie, the basal cisterns and the dorsal and ventral subarachnoid spaces while during diastole, upward (cranial) flow of CSF in these same structures is seen.
(12) The cecal foramen pointer was invented for a Sistrunk median cervical cyst operation.
(13) Enlargement in an adjacent conjugating foramen forms a tumour which may narrow the spinal canal (1 case diagnosed by CAT) or erode the vertebral body, so compromising the spinal support.
(14) The earliest perfect ring-shaped formation of the foramen ovale is observed in the 7th fetal month and the latest in 3 years after birth.
(15) Arterial oxygen tension was lower in patients with a patent foramen ovale (mean 55 [SD 14] vs 62 [16] mm Hg, p = 0.038).
(16) Body weight was not correlated with foramen magnum area in 25 specimens of savannah sparrow, Ammodramus sandwichensis.
(17) The common tumors originating in the jugular foramen are chemodectoma and schwannoma.
(18) They are determined primarily by (a) the pulpal response of an immature tooth to trauma, and (b) the mechanical difficulties encountered when attempts are made to obturate the root canal of a tooth with a widely patent apical foramen.
(19) Successful penetration of the foramen was achieved in 39 of 46 injections on cadavers and in six injections on five patients.
(20) A patient with symptomatic oscillopsia without downbeat nystagmus, who was diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging to have displaced cerebellar tonsils below the foramen magnum, is presented here.
Opening
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Open
(n.) The act or process of opening; a beginning; commencement; first appearance; as, the opening of a speech.
(n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole.
(n.) Hence: A vacant place; an opportunity; as, an opening for business.
(n.) A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings.
Example Sentences:
(1) says Gregg Wallace opening the new series of Celebrity MasterChef (Mon-Fri, 2.15pm, BBC1).
(2) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(3) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(4) Blatter requires a two-thirds majority of the 209 voters to triumph in the opening round, with a simple majority required if it goes to a second round.
(5) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
(6) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(7) It is the only fully-fledged casino to open in the region, outside Lebanon.
(8) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
(9) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(10) The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effects of cromakalim (BRL 34915), a potent drug from a new class of drugs characterized as "K+ channel openers", on the electrical activity of human skeletal muscle.
(11) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(12) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(13) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
(14) At 100 microM-ACh the apparent open time became shorter probably due to channel blockade by ACh molecules.
(15) 'The French see it as an open and shut case,' says a Paris-based diplomat.
(16) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(17) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(18) The data indicate greater legitimacy and openness in discussing holocaust-related issues in the homes of ex-partisans than in the homes of ex-prisoners in concentration camps.
(19) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
(20) He had been just asked to open their new town hall, in the hope he might donate a Shakespeare statue.