foramen

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• Received-Pronunciation: /fəˈɹeɪ.mɛn/
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• General-American: /fəˈɹeɪ.mən/
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• rhymes with -eɪmən
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• CMU ARPABET: F ER0 EY1 M AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin forāmen (“aperture or opening produced by boring”), from forō (“to pierce or bore”) + -men (nominal suffix).

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: ثُقْبَة (ṯuqba) — an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
• Catalan: foramen — an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
• Catalan: forat — an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
• Czech: otvor — an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
• French: foramen — an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
• German: Foramen — an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
• Macedonian: о́твор (ótvor) — an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
• Macedonian: ду́пка (dúpka) — an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
• Polish: otwór — an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
• Russian: отве́рстие (otvérstije) — an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone
• Spanish: foramen — an opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone