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).
(From Wikipedia). The internal carotid artery passes superiorly from the carotid canal in the base of the skull, emerging via that part of the foramen lacerum which is not occluded by cartilage. The artery of pterygoid canal, the nerve of pterygoid canal and some venous drainage also pass through the foramen lacerum. The ascending pharyngeal artery is one of three possible meningeal branches of this vessel. 2  Lastly, some emissary veins pass through the foramen lacerum. 3  These connect the extracranial pterygoid plexus with the intracranial cavernous sinus and present an unopposed route for infection.