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scarpa's foramen

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Main Entry: Scarpa's foramen
Function: noun
: either of two canals opening into the incisive foramen in the median plane behind the upper incisors and transmitting thenasopalatine nerves
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Scarpa's foramen n.
Either of two foramina, designated anterior and posterior, located in the line of the intermaxillary suture, and that transmit the nasopalatine nerves.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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