Neuroforaminal vs. Neural Foraminal - Drdar

I have been a neurologist for the past 12 years and work both at the VA in the Comp and Pen Division as well as doing State examinations and the term neural vs. neuro- foramina and its variants is a constant point of contention among colleagues. 

I've read through the posts and have spent a good deal of time perusing various online resources on this fascinating question.  My conclusion (as someone in an earlier post already figured out) is that NEUROFORAMINA as 1 word is considered an acceptable neologism.  The term by mass usage consensus is understood by the medical community at large though there does not seem to be any support for this term in any medical dictionary even as a colloquialism.  And since nobody but a trained and saavy court reporter or grammarian would even think of questioning a doctor who may use the term it is consequently glossed over and left to the esoterics to debate.....I guess that's us!

A pubmed central search using the term NEUROFORAMINAL got 31 hits.  As an example, in the European Spine Journal the following title is found:

Chang-Chin Wu,³ Mu-Hung Lin,¹ Shu-Hua Yang,¹ Po-Quang Chen,¹ and Tiffany Ting-Fang Shih²

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