The final 's' of the Greek form is often reinterpreted as a plural in American English, leading to the formation of the singular gyro. History The earliest known photo of meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie AKA DÃ¶ner, by James Robertson, 1855, Ottoman Empire.
passage way for nerve and blood vessels that supply the lower teeth; it is located on the medial surface if the ramus; blood vessels and nerves pass through this foramen and then travel through the bone of the mandibular body, giving off branches to each tooth along the way. (this is where anesthetic is injected).
pl. foramina [L.] a natural opening or passage, especially one into or through a bone. a foramen which perforates the wing of the atlas in some species and transmits the vertebral artery; appears as a notch in dogs. the opening at or near the apex of the root of a tooth and into the dental cavity.