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Noun: interventricular foramen
  1. The small opening (on both the right and left sides) that connects the third ventricle in the diencephalon with the lateral ventricle in the cerebral hemisphere
    "The CT scan showed enlargement of the interventricular foramen";
    - foramen of Monro, Monro's foramen

Type of: foramen, hiatus

Encyclopedia: Interventricular foramen