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• The transducer is placed at the paralumbar fossa and then moved ventrally to the midline.2015 July 3, Ueli Braun, Karl Nuss, “Uroperitoneum in cattle: Ultrasonographic findings, diagnosis and treatment”, in Acta Veterinaria…. From the entry paralumbar
• The pseudosylvian sulcus is weakly present, and it is located just above the temporal fossa.2015 August 6, “A New Late Miocene Odobenid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, Japan Suggests Rapid Diversification of Basal Miocene…. From the entry pseudosylvian
• Dias and Albright reported a series of 58 patients with posterior fossa tumors and hydrocephalus.2008, Richard C. E. Anderson, Hugh J. L. Garton, John R. W. Kestle, “Treatment of Hydrocephalus with Shunts”, in A. Leland Albright, Ian…. From the entry shunt
• The Vestibule (vestibulum nasi). — The paired vestibule may be considered an antechamber to the nasal fossa.1920, Jacob Parsons Schaeffer, The Nose, Paranasal Sinuses, Nasolacrimal Passageways, and Olfactory Organ in Man: A Genetic…. From the entry vestibule
• On arrival she was afebrile but tachycardic, with local peritonism in the left renal angle and left iliac fossa despite large amounts of opioid analgesia.2015 May 7, E. Maughan et al., “Endovascular management of renal artery aneurysm rupture in pregnancy – A case report”, in International…. From the entry peritonism
• More anteriorly, there is a potential foramen in the spinoprezygapophyseal fossa into the right chamber although its origin could be taphonomic (Fig 2B ).2015 December 19, “Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed…. From the entry spinoprezygapophyseal
• Usually donor kidney is placed in the right iliac fossa with anastamosis to right internal or external iliac artery and external iliac vein.2015 August 11, Vijay Radhakrishnan et al., “Absent Right Side Iliac Arterial System, an Intraoperative Surprise during Live Related…. From the entry anastamosis
• At 90° of flexion, the patella enters the condylar fossa, where the contact areas are on both the lateral and medial trochlears of the femur.2014, Joanne K. Singleton, Robert V. DiGregorio, Carol Green-Hernandez, Primary Care, Second Edition: An Interprofessional Perspective…. From the entry trochlear
• The posterior transpetrosal approaches include the retrolabyrinthine, translabyrinthine and transcochlear, whereas the anterior approaches are extensions of the basic middle fossa approach.2010, Bernardo A, Stieg PE, “Translabyrinthine and transcochlear petrosal approaches”, in Cappabianca P, Iaconetta G, Califano L, editors…. From the entry transcochlear
• The popliteal entrapment syndrome is a developmental disorder resulting in an anomalous relationship between the popliteal artery and muscle structures in the popliteal fossa.2006, Gregory J. Landry, edited by Gerald B. Zelenock, Mastery of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, 53: Treatment of Nonatherosclerotic…. From the entry popliteal

Meaning of fossa

1. noun A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.
2. noun A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.
3. noun A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal (Cryptoprocta ferox) of the civet family, endemic to the rainforests of Madagascar. It is slender, long-tailed and has retractile claws and anal scent glands.

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How do you use fossa in a sentence?

Fossa is used as a noun. For example: “The transducer is placed at the paralumbar fossa and then moved ventrally to the midline.”

What is a short sentence with fossa?

“Dias and Albright reported a series of 58 patients with posterior fossa tumors and hydrocephalus.”

What does fossa mean?

Fossa means a pit, groove, cavity, or depression.