Long, narrow, shallow depression.
Depressions in cerebral cortex.
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Examples for "fossa "
Examples for "fossa "
1 Patients with intact posterior fossa cisterns had good recoveries without surgical treatment.
2 SLN varies in different sites, but most frequently located in obturator fossa .
3 A patient with a large, long-standing posterior fossa arachnoid cyst was evaluated.
4 CT showed a right-sided middle cranial fossa arachnoid cyst in each patient.
5 The sergeant major hadn't put in fossa and agger, of course.
1 Lower margin of mouth notched in the middle; back of cell minutely sulcated; sulci short, interrupted, and irregular.
2 Finally, positive CT scans show an isolated widening of the sulci which is fairly suggestive of the disease.
3 There was also a chronic leptomeningitis, with numerous streaks and flecks along the sulci , especially in the frontal region.
4 Cortical gray matter measurements were not deemed reliable due to the close proximity of CSF in the cortical sulci .
5 In general, (1) human-produced sounds yielded robust activation in the bilateral posterior superior temporal sulci independent of task.
1 Five patients had tumors that involved two or more fossae .
2 The shock from these impacts was felt throughout the asteroid, producing large ditches called fossae around the equator and the northern side.
3 Tissue chambers were implanted subcutaneously in the paralumbar fossae of eight calves (256-290 kg body weight).
4 Wounds crossing the nasal fossæ were comparatively common.
5 Evidence of active landslides is seen at Cerberus Fossae , a set of troughs cut into volcanic plains on Mars.
In anatomy, a furrow or fissure.
1 Background: Various multidisciplinary approaches are taken in the treatment of superior sulcus tumors.
2 Objective: Superior sulcus tumors with involvement of the spine have historically been considered unresectable.
3 It is part of the frontal lobe and is anterior to the central sulcus .
4 The donor site closure was along the auricular sulcus .
5 The entrance of the nest was situated in the little sulcus , or ditch, between two bricks.
6 No labeling was ever seen in cortex ventral to the fundus of the superior temporal sulcus .
7 Breach into the sphenoid sinus can occur during drilling of the anterior limb of the chiasmatic sulcus .
8 Maintenance of ear projection and post auricular sulcus in staged ear reconstruction in microtia is a trying problem.
9 The implantation is done via a hemicircular incision on the dorsum of the penis in the sulcus coronarius.
10 The dysplastic cortex is characterized by the formation of a small sulcus and a three- to four-layered architecture.
11 After treatment, activation was found in the superior temporal sulcus , while subcortical or cerebellar participation was no longer present.
12 Cells expressing Sox10 were present in the stria vascularis, outer sulcus and spiral prominence in mouse and human cochleas.
13 The position of the sulcus of Rolando is important because of the numerous cortical centres which lie close to it.
14 Weaker callosal inputs to the parabelt originate from the corresponding levels of the superior temporal gyrus and superior temporal sulcus .
15 Posteriorly label is transported to cortical areas in the superior temporal gyrus including the dorsal bank of the superior temporal sulcus .
16 Auditory cortex of macaque monkeys is located on the lower bank of the lateral sulcus and the adjoining superior temporal gyrus.
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