Assertion: foramen magnum | /r/HasProperty | large hole
Facets:
value: in the center
type: LOCATION
value: in the base of the skull
type: LOCATION
value: with the clivus
type: OTHER
value: in the occipital bone
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: These four regions surround the foramen magnum, which is a large hole that is located at the center of the occipital bone.
text: The foramen magnum is a large opening in the occipital bone that is responsible for providing the medulla oblongata to enter and exit the skull.
text: The foramen magnum is a large hole situated in the middle, with the clivus, a smooth part of the occipital bone travelling upwards in front of it.
text: The foramen magnum (large hole) at the base of the skull is located under the braincase, as in a biped, and not posteriorly, as in a quadrupedal (four-legged) ape (see skull).
text: The foramen magnum is the large hole in the center; labelled '13'
text: The foramen magnum is the large hole in the center; labelled '13'
text: The foramen magnum is the large hole in the center; labelled '13'
text: For many years, scientists looked to the foramen magnum -- the large hole at the base of the skull where the brain connects to the spine -- to find out.
text: Humans differ from other primates in that the foramen magnum, the large hole at the base of the skull which the spinal cord passes through, is shifted forward.
text: foramen magnum: large opening in the occipital bone of the skull through which the spinal cord emerges and the vertebral arteries enter the cranium
text: The foramen magnum (from the Latin, meaning “great hole”) is the large opening in the base of the skull through which the spinal cord exits the cranial vault.
text: The foramen magnum (the large opening where the spinal cord exits out of the cranium from the brain) is located further forward (on the underside of the cranium) than in apes or any other primate except humans.
text: Specifically, the tumor was a rare foramen magnum meningioma, meaning that it was located within the foramen magnum, the large opening in the occipital bone at the base of the skull.
text: Foramen magnum: the large opening in the skull through which the spinal cord enters.