foramen magnum in English

noun
1
the hole in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord passes.
The cysts may localize anywhere within the CNS, but are often found at the base of the brain around the foramen magnum or surrounding the spinal cord.

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1. Treatment: Foramen Magnum stenosis Foramen magnum stenosis is the first spinal manifestation in an infant with Achondroplasia

2. Arteri vertebralis memasuki duramater setinggi foramen magnum.

3. • Basilar impression is a skeletal malformation in which the upper cervical spine and clivus demonstrate translocation into the foramen magnum

4. The Bipedal stance reduces the pressure on the neck since the foramen magnum is further underneath the skull compared to quadrupedal species

5. Basilar invagination, also called Basilar impression, is a congenital or acquired craniocervical junction abnormality where the tip of the odontoid process projects above the foramen magnum.

6. Several factors (midfacial hypoplasia, muscular hypotonia, narrowing of the foramen magnum) related to achondroplasia contribute to the fact that achondroplastic children and adolescents have an increased risk for SRD and chronic respiratory failure.

7. Brain definition is - the portion of the vertebrate central nervous system enclosed in the skull and continuous with the spinal cord through the foramen magnum that is composed of neurons and supporting and nutritive structures (such as glia) and that integrates sensory information from inside and outside the body in controlling autonomic function (such as heartbeat and respiration), in