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FORAMEN OVALE [5 records]

Record 1 2017-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vessels (Medicine)
Universal entry(ies)
DEF

A large oval opening in the base of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone, transmitting the mandibular division of the trigeminal merge and a small meningeal artery.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vaisseaux (Médecine)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
DEF

Petit orifice présent chez le fœtus et situé presque au centre de la cloison intérauriculaire séparant l'oreillette droite et l'oreillette gauche du cœur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Redes vasculares (Medicina)
Entrada(s) universal(es)
DEF

Abertura que comunica las aurículas del corazón fetal.

CONT

El septum primum no constituye un tabique interauricular completo, puesto que antes de que se suelde al septum intermedium se desgarra y se reabsorbe en su parte superior. Esto origina una abertura, el agujero oval o agujero de Botal.

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Record 2 2012-10-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Heart
OBS

The atria are separated by a partition called the interatrial septum. A prominent feature of this septum is an oval depression, the fossa ovalis, which corresponds to the site of the foramen ovale, an opening in the interatrial septum of the fetal heart. The fossa ovalis faces the opening of the inferior vena cava and is located in the septal wall of the right atrium.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cœur
OBS

La partie de la cloison verticale qui sépare les deux oreillettes se nomme septum (ou cloison) interauriculaire et celle qui sépare les deux ventricules, septum (ou cloison) interventriculaire.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
DEF

One of three terminal divisions of the trigeminal nerve, passing through the foramen ovale to the infratemporal fossa [with] extensive distribution to muscles of mastication, skin of face, mucous membrane of mouth, and teeth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux
CONT

Le V est un nerf mixte. Le contingent sensitif innerve la face et le contingent moteur les muscles masticateurs [...] Le V3 ou nerf maxillaire inférieur reçoit des téguments de la tempe, du menton, des dents et gencives de la mâchoire inférieure, des 2/3 antérieurs de la langue et de la muqueuse buccale et des joues.

OBS

V = nerf trijumeau.

Spanish

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Record 4 2004-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neurosurgery
DEF

A procedure that selectively injures the large myelinated fibers that mediate light touch and trigger the pain in all three sensory branches of the trigeminal nerve.

CONT

Percutaneous Balloon Microcompression. Fluoroscopy is used to guide a 14-gauge access needle through the skin of the cheek into the entrance of the foramen ovale.... A 4. 0 french(1. 35 mm) balloon catheter is inserted through the cannula of the needle and advanced to the entrance of Meckel' s cave. The balloon, filled with approximately 0. 75-1 ml of a contrast material, is inflated to compress the gasserian ganglion and nerve root against the dura and the petrous ridge for 1 minute. The contrast material allows the position of the balloon to be verified under fluoroscopy. After deflation, the balloon and cannula are removed concurrently.

Key term(s)
  • percutaneous balloon micro-compression

French

Domaine(s)
  • Neurochirurgie
OBS

La technique consiste à gonfler le ballon d'une sonde de Fogarty pendant quelques minutes au contact du ganglion de Gasser dans le cavum de Meckel, puis à le retirer en fin d'intervention.

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-03-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • The Heart
DEF

An oval depression on the lower part of the septum of the right atrium.

OBS

It is a vestige of the foramen ovale, and its floor corresponds to the septum primum of the fetal heart.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cœur
CONT

La cloison séparant les deux oreillettes, ou cloison interauriculaire, présente en son centre une dépression, la fosse ovale, entourée de l'anneau de Vieussens.

Spanish

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