Talk:Foramen cecum (frontal bone)

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Cecum or Cæcum?

Gray's lists it as Foramen cæcum, but several sites and articles refer to it as Foramen cecum. We'll need to agree on a general spelling... --Marcus 09:35, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Also, there are various types of foramina cæcum (e.g. f. caecum medullae oblongatae/linguae), would it be a good idea to incorporate all of them or just f. caecum ossis frontalis? (see infobox) --Marcus 19:36, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have an opinion on the first point, but for the second one, I think it would be better for them to be on separate pages, moved Foramen cecum to Foramen cecum (frontal bone), and set up a new page at Foramen cecum to serve as disambiguation. (I'm curious, though, why these structures all have the same name. It appears that "cecum" comes from the Latin "caecus" for blind, so perhaps these were all "blind holes", that early anatomists couldn't clearly define.) --Arcadian 20:22, 12 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]