Explore Fossa through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like pit or cavum. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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.
Synonyms of Fossa
Using Fossa
- The main meaning on this page is: A pit, groove, cavity, or depression. | A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.
- Useful related words include: pit, viverrine, cryptoprocta ferox, fossa cat.
- In the example corpus, fossa often appears in combinations such as: the fossa, fossa to, cubital fossa.
Context around Fossa
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fossa
- In this selection, "fossa" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, cubital, cranial, articular, man, project and ovalis stand out and add context to how "fossa" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about articular fossa and condyle and called the fossa ovalis. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fossa" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fossa
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Directors say around €24m is to be spent on the Fossa project. (12 words)
On the land side of the city he constructed the Fossa Quiritium, a ditch fortification. (15 words)
The brachial artery continues to the cubital fossa in the anterior compartment of the arm. (15 words)
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. (42 words)
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. (37 words)
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. (35 words)
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.
Common combinations with fossa
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the fossa 5×
- fossa to 4×
- cubital fossa 3×
- fossa in 2×
- cranial fossa 2×
- articular fossa 2×