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Foramen   /fərˈeɪmən/   Listen
Foramen

noun
(pl. L. foramina, E. foramines)
1.
A natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure.  Synonym: hiatus.



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... eye, the slight development of the organ of smell, the general hairiness of the human body, the frequently defective development or entire absence of the third molar (the wisdom tooth), the vermiform appendix, the occasional reappearance of a bony canal (foramen supracondyloideum) at the lower end of the humerus, the rudimentary tail of man (the so-called taillessness), and so on. Of these rudimentary structures the occasional occurrence of the animal ear-point in man is most fully discussed. Darwin's ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



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