foramen

An opening through a bone or membrane.

Specific

alveolar foramina of maxilla anterior ethmoidal foramen aortic hiatus/foramen/aperture/opening condylar canal costotransverse foramen esophageal hiatus (aperture or opening) foramen cecum of frontal bone (blind/cecal foramen of frontal bone) foramen cecum of tongue (blind/cecal foramen of tongue) foramen lacerum foramen magnum foramen of Magnedie foramen ovale foramen rotundum foramen spinosum greater palatine foramen hyoglossal canal or foramen incisive/incisor/Stensen foramen inferior orbital fissure infraorbital foramen (canal) intervertebral foramen jugular foramen lacrimal foramen lesser/posterior palatine foramen mandibular foramen (canal) mastoid foramen mental foramen morgagni foramen obturator foramen omental foramen (epiploic foramen, foramen of Winslow) optic canal (foramen) ostium primum (interatrial foramen primum) ostium secundum (interatrial foramen secundum) parietal foramen pleuroperitoneal hiatus (Bochdalek foramen) posterior ethmoidal foramen postglenoid foramen sacral foramina sphenoid foramen ovale sphenoidal emissary foramen (venous/Vesalius foramen) sphenopalatine foramen sternal foramen stylomastoid foramen superior orbital fissure (sphenoidal formamen) supraorbital foramen (notch) transverse foramen; vertebroarterial foramen; foramen of transverse process vena caval foramen (caval opening of diaphragm, caval foramen) vertebral foramina zygomaticofacial foramen

References

Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995