Etymograph

English

alar foramen

From alar + foramen.

A compound of alar + foramen

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- ‘axis’

Proto-Italic *aksis

Latin axis ‘an axletree of wagon, car, chariot’

Latin *axla

Latin ala ‘wing’

English alar

Latin forō ‘to pierce or bore’

Latin forāmen ‘aperture or opening produced by boring’

English foramen

Today it means

noun The opening at either end of the alar canal, with the rostral alar foramen closer to the nose and the caudal or posterior alar foramen closer to the back of the skull.

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