different between foramen vs sulcus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin for?men (“aperture or opening produced by boring”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f???e?.m?n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /f???e?.m?n/
• Rhymes: -e?m?n

Noun

foramen (plural foramina or foramens)

1. (anatomy) An opening, an orifice, or a short passage, especially in a bone.

   Hyponyms: alar foramen, foramen cecum, foramen magnum, foramen of Magendie, foramen of Monro, foramen of Morgagni, foramen of Winslow, foramen ovale, foramen triosseum, neuroforamen, parietal foramen

Derived terms

• foraminal
• foraminate
• foraminous

References

• “foramen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “foramen”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

See also

• meatus

Anagrams

• Foreman, foreman, name for

Latin

Etymology

From for? (“to pierce or bore”) +? -men (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fo?ra?.men/, [f???ä?m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fo?ra.men/, [f?????m?n]

Noun

for?men n (genitive for?minis); third declension

1. (Classical Latin, rare) An opening or aperture produced by boring; a hole.
2. (transferred sense, Late Latin) An opening, hole, cave.

   Synonym: caverna

Inflection

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Derived terms

• for?men ac?s
• for?min?tus
• for?min?sus

Related terms

• for?tus
• for?

Descendants

References

• foramen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• foramen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• foramen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• foramen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin for?men (“aperture, opening”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo??amen/, [fo??a.m?n]

Noun

foramen m (plural forámenes)

1. (anatomy) foramen

Derived terms

Related terms

• foraminífero
• perforar
• horadar

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sulcus (“a furrow made by a plow”). Doublet of sullow ("plough").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?l.k?s/
• Rhymes: -?lk?s

Noun

sulcus (plural sulci)

1. (anatomy) A furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue, especially that marking the convolutions of the surface of the brain.

   Synonym: fissure

   Coordinate term: gyrus

   Hyponyms: calcaneal sulcus, central sulcus, cingulate sulcus, coronal sulcus, cruciate sulcus, interlabial sulcus, intermammary sulcus, lacrimal sulcus, lateral sulcus, malleolar sulcus, postcentral sulcus, preauricular sulcus, precentral sulcus, radial sulcus, sagittal sulcus, sigmoid sulcus, sulcus ansatus, sulcus arteriae vertebralis, sulcus tubae auditivae, tympanic sulcus

2. (planetology) A region of subparallel grooves or ditches formed by a geological process.

Derived terms

• pseudosulcus
• sulcal
• sulcate

Translations

References

• “sulcus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “sulcus”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *solkos, from Proto-Indo-European *solk-o-s (“furrow”), *selk- (“to pull, drag”), whence also Old English sulh. Doublet of holcus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sul.kus/, [?s????k?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sul.kus/, [?sulkus]

Noun

sulcus m (genitive sulc?); second declension

1. (agriculture) A furrow made by a plow.

   Synonyms: l?ra, porca

2. (transferred sense):
   1. (agriculture) Ploughing.
   2. (of things resembling a furrow):
      1. A long, narrow trench; a ditch.
      2. (in general) A rut or track.

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• sulcus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sulcus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sulcus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• sulcus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)?^[4], Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN