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Fossa meaning
A pit, groove, cavity, or depression. | A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.
Example sentences (18)
At the cubital fossa, this nerve is deep to the pronator teres muscle and is the most medial structure in the fossa.
Feedback on “David Clifford one of six sent off but still inspires Fossa to All-Ireland victory”.
The Fossa man, though, he took it on, spying Paul Geaney (who let’s not forget made a great run, and delivered the finish despite intense pressure) for the game’s opening goal.
Matt Nadin, from Sheffield, travelled to to explore the village of Fossa in the L’Aquila region of the country.
Gharials sit somewhere in the middle in terms of their sexual dimorphism as they do possess these large narial fossa that can help with identification.
But providing fixes for open source flaws doesn’t solve the question of who will create the fix, which is why EU-FOSSA 2 offers a 20% bonus to researchers who take the time to do that.
Directors say around €24m is to be spent on the Fossa project.
The majority of arachnoid cysts form outside the temporal lobe of the brain in an area of the skull known as the middle cranial fossa.
Later, the rest of the wooden stick was removed very slowly from the boy's oral cavity as they opened his skull while accessing his posterior cranial fossa to find the tip of the chopstick.
A depression in the surface of the right atrium remains where the foramen ovale once walls, called the fossa ovalis.
Diagnosis Modern digitalised panoramic X-ray devices are capable to take TMJ images, which provides information about articular fossa and condyle.
Masseters attach from the dentary (specifically, the masseteric fossa) to the zygomatic arch and onto the maxilla in front of the arch, providing crushing force.
On the land side of the city he constructed the Fossa Quiritium, a ditch fortification.
Society and culture Clinical significance The cubital fossa (colloquially known as the elbow pit) is clinically important for venepuncture and for blood pressure measurement.
The brachial artery continues to the cubital fossa in the anterior compartment of the arm.
The function of the lower head is to steady the articular disc as it moves back with the condyle into the articular fossa.
The nerve then runs straight down the back of the leg, through the popliteal fossa to supply the ankle flexors on the back of the lower leg and then continues down to supply all the muscles in the sole of the foot.
This type of artifact commonly occurs in the posterior fossa of the brain, or if there are metal implants.