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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''
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Long, narrow, shallow depression.

борозда
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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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SLN varies in different sites, but most frequently located in obturator fossa.
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A patient with a large, long-standing posterior fossa arachnoid cyst was evaluated.
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CT showed a right-sided middle cranial fossa arachnoid cyst in each patient.
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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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It is not an isolated malformation of the posterior fossa in most cases.
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Salvage treatment followed by posterior-fossa radiotherapy can effectively treat local relapses or progression.
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Eleven patients developed recurrent disease, with ten relapsing first in the posterior fossa.
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In 6 months, left supraclavicular fossa was gradually bulged like tumor.
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Thus, we investigated executive functions in pediatric posterior fossa tumor survivors.
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Myxomas occur most commonly in the left atrium arising from the fossa ovalis.
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Five aneurysms were supratentorial and four were in the posterior fossa.
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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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fossa
Fossa through the time
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