What Is Botal's Foramen?

From The Unnamable:
No, I can't move, not yet. One minute in a skull and the next in a belly, strange, and the next nowhere in particular. Perhaps it's Botal's Foramen, when all about me palpitates and labours.
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[From The Dissector's Manual of Practical and Surgical Anatomy
by Erasmus Wilson, 1856]

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