cribriform plate make up the ethmoidal labyrinths. Their walls form most of the inner walls of the eye sockets and are joined together by a thin perforated plate of bone at the roof of the nose. This bone, the cribriform plate, transmits the olfactory nerves that carry the sense of smell.
Ethymoid bone, the Cribiform Plate has the olfactory foramina passing through
The olfactory is a nerve... It is cranial Nerve I.... It is used for smell..
The ethmoid bone contains openings for the olfactory nerves.
The Ethmoid bone
Ethmoid bone.
Ethmoid
mandible
The mental foramen gives you feeling in your lips and mouth. It is located on the mandible (Lower jaw bone), it is two little holes below your mouth
spongy bone
The hollow interior part of a long bone contains bone marrow.
Ther are many thinks that could be seen a specks on a bone. If what you are seeing looks like holes they are foramina, small passages for blood vessels to pass through.
Cancellous bone, or spongy bone, has many open spaces and contains marrow. It is softer and weaker than compact bone.
mandible
They provide passageways for blood vessels to enter the bone.
Foramen lacerum
The mental foramen gives you feeling in your lips and mouth. It is located on the mandible (Lower jaw bone), it is two little holes below your mouth
The vertebral foramina is where the spinal cord passes through the vertebrae (bone).
The Sacral Canal runs throughout the greater part of the Sacral bone, The four Posterior Sacral Foramina are lateral to the articular processes of the Sacrum and are smaller in size and less regular in form than the anterior.
A foramen (plural foramina) is the medical term meaning an opening in the bone through which vessels, nerves, and ligaments pass.
what bone contains alveoli bearing teeth
spongy bone!
spongy bone
The hollow interior part of a long bone contains bone marrow.
"Foramina" is the plural form of "foramen", and a foramen is just a hole. The brain normally has several of these holes, or foramina in it, including the foramen of Magendie, foramina of Luschka, and foramina of Monroe. Which one are you talking about?