What is the foramen monro?
Foramen Monro or Monro's Foramen is a term used for interventricular foramen, which is named after its placement in the brain. It connects the right and left side of the side chambers and is responsible for allowing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) to get into the third chamber. The word "foramen" concerns the opening, passage or channel in the body helps to connect blood vessels, nerves or muscles of the body. Since there are more than one of these holes, a more accurate and more inclusive term that will be used, the plural "foramen", which is "foramina". This results in "foramine monro" or interventricular foramin.
This particular pair of crescent -shaped holes is named after Scottish doctor Alexander Monro. Although French anatomist Raymond Vieussans identified the interventricular foramine of the brain about a century ahead, Monro is the first to describe them. In his publication from 1783 he published his findings, observation of the structure and functions of the nervous system
Foramen Monro can be found on the right and left side of the side chambers. The holes connect these chambers to the third chamber in the middle line of the brain. Thus, the side chambers are lined with the third chamber and these structures form the main parts of the brain chamber system. Each foramen is bounded by a fibrous bundle called Fornix and Gray-Moms Mass called Thamus.
By combining these parts of the brain, each foramen monro allows CSF that the side chambers produce to get into the third chamber. From there, this clear colorless liquid spreads to the rest of the ventricular system. CSF is essential for brain protection. However, excess fluid production can lead to hydrocephalus or "water on the brain". Also included in the foramine of the Jechoroid Plexus that produces CSF.
The phrase "Foramen of Monro" is particularly essential for distinguishing it from another type of interventricular foramen. The embryology field also has interventricular foramen, which is opening, towhich occurs for a certain period of time between ever -developing chambers of the heart or lower chambers. It is formed when interventricular septum leaves opening during its separation of the heart into two chambers. However, this area of the organ is not called foramen monro, and instead of a pair there is only one of these openings that characterize interventricular foramine foramine.