Medical Dictionary

intervertebral foramen

noun

Medical Definition of INTERVERTEBRAL FORAMEN

:  any of the openings that give passage to the spinal nerves from the vertebral canal and are formed by the juxtaposition of superior and inferior notches in the pedicles of contiguous vertebrae

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