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Meanings of fossa in English

Portuguese
fossa
Wikidata

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

        fossa
        Russian
        борозда
        Catalan
        sulcus
        Spanish
        ''fossa''
        Wikidata

        Long, narrow, shallow depression.

              борозда
              Catalan
              clot

              A concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)

                    clot
                    Catalan
                    fossa

                    In anatomy, a fossa (; plural fossae ( or ); from the Latin "fossa", ditch or trench) is a depression or hollow, usually in a bone, such as the hypophyseal fossa (the depression in the sphenoid bone).

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                          Usage of fossa in English
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                          Patients with intact posterior fossa cisterns had good recoveries without surgical treatment.
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                          2
                          SLN varies in different sites, but most frequently located in obturator fossa.
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                          3
                          A patient with a large, long-standing posterior fossa arachnoid cyst was evaluated.
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                          4
                          CT showed a right-sided middle cranial fossa arachnoid cyst in each patient.
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                          5
                          The sergeant major hadn't put in fossa and agger, of course.
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                          No cases have been previously reported in the cavernous sinus or pituitary fossa.
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                          No cases of nodal metastasis in the ischiorectal fossa were observed.
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                          8
                          It is not an isolated malformation of the posterior fossa in most cases.
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                          9
                          Salvage treatment followed by posterior-fossa radiotherapy can effectively treat local relapses or progression.
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                          10
                          Eleven patients developed recurrent disease, with ten relapsing first in the posterior fossa.
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                          11
                          In 6 months, left supraclavicular fossa was gradually bulged like tumor.
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                          12
                          Thus, we investigated executive functions in pediatric posterior fossa tumor survivors.
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                          13
                          Myxomas occur most commonly in the left atrium arising from the fossa ovalis.
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                          14
                          Five aneurysms were supratentorial and four were in the posterior fossa.
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                          15
                          All four patients with macroscopic metastases of posterior fossa or multifocal ependymoma died.
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                          The posterior fossa of the cranium contains the cerebellum and brainstem.
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                          Translations for fossa
                          Portuguese
                          fossa
                          Fossa through the time
                          Fossa across language varieties
                          United States of America
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