INTERVENTRICULAR FORAMEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interventricular foramen mean? 

• INTERVENTRICULAR FORAMEN (noun)
  The noun INTERVENTRICULAR FORAMEN has 1 sense:

1. the small opening (on both the right and left sides) that connects the third ventricle in the diencephalon with the lateral ventricle in the cerebral hemisphere

  Familiarity information: INTERVENTRICULAR FORAMEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERVENTRICULAR FORAMEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The small opening (on both the right and left sides) that connects the third ventricle in the diencephalon with the lateral ventricle in the cerebral hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

foramen of Monro; interventricular foramen; Monro's foramen

Hypernyms ("interventricular foramen" is a kind of...):

foramen; hiatus (a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure)

 Context examples 

An irregularly curved cavity that extends from the interventricular foramen to the splenium of the corpus callosum in the brain.

(Body of the Lateral Ventricle, NCI Thesaurus)