Plural of foraramen; small openings or passages, particularly in anatomical or architectural contexts.
Possibly a variant or corruption of 'foramen' pluralized (foramina/foramens), combining Latin foramen (hole) with unclear suffix variation in historical technical texts.
This word appears primarily in specialized anatomical or architectural texts from the 17th-18th centuries, showing how technical terminology evolved differently before modern standardization!
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