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n. Anatomy A small cavity or depression, as in a bone.

n. A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth.

n. A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.

n. A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, with scientific name Cryptoprocta ferox

n. A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth

n. In anatomy, a foss, pit, depression, or hollow of some kind in any structure, specified by a qualifying term.

n. In zoology, a deep pit or depression in the hard integument of an animal, often opening into the interior cavity of the body and serving for the point of attachment of an organ: as, the antennary fossa of an insect.

n. See the adjectives.

n. A depressed space between the posterior commissure of the vulva and the fourchette.

n. The surface by which the temporal bone articulates with the lower jaw; improperly extended in human anatomy to include the whole of the smooth surface of the vaginal process behind the Glaserian fissure, in relation with the parotid gland, and not concerned in the temporomaxillary articulation. See cut under skull.

n. The innominate fossa of the outer ear; the groove between the helix and the antihelix; the fossa of the helix. See second cut under ear.

n. In zoology, a genus of Madagascan viverrine quadrupeds, allied to the genets.

n. [lowercase] The species of this genus, formerly called Genetta fossa.

n. The pit of the stomach.

n. A depression in the hyaloid membrane of the eye on a level with the entrance of the optic nerve.

n. See supraclaticular.

n. The depression between the sternal and the clavicular origins of the sternomastoid muscle.

n. largest carnivore of Madagascar; intermediate in some respects between cats and civets

n. a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)

n. monotypic genus of Madagascar civets closely related to palm civets

"And the presence of the glands in this location might explain another unusual aspect of metriorhynchid cranial anatomy, namely the strange elongate, groove-like antorbital fossae present in these animals (the antorbital fossa is an accessory opening present on the side of the skull in archosaurs)."

viverrine    viverrine mammal    mammal genus   

fossa cerebelli    crotaphite fossa    pterygoid fossa    anconeal fossa of the humerus    fossa triangularis    epigastric fossa    fossa of the vena cava    fossa of rolando    iliac fossa    fossa intercondyloidea   

fossae   

fossae    hypothalamus    aequora    transurethral    gyrus    condyle    adenylate    sinus    calcaneal    fornix