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fossa
  1. (anatomy) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression.
  2. (geology) A long, narrow, shallow depression on the body of an extraterrestrial body, such as a planet or moon.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The basisphenoid bears a deep, central depression at this point called the sella turcica or pituitary fossa.”
      “The sigmoid may lie in the abdomen just inferior to the splenic flexure of the transverse colon, or in the right iliac fossa.”
      “The cystic artery is ligated and transected and the gallbladder is dissected from the gallbladder fossa and the right hepatic lobe.”
fossane
  1. (dated) The Malagasy civet, Fossa fossana, resembling the genet.
  2. The fossa, Cryptoprocta ferox, also of Madagascar.
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fosse
  1. A ditch or moat.
  2. (anatomy) Alternative form of fossa
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  4. Examples:
    1. “During heavy rainfall, the water swiftly rushed down the steep fosse, preventing the streets from flooding.”
      “The revetted fosse was on the map and if that had been twigged at the environmental impact assessment it would have saved a lot of grief.”
      “Making the great fosse was one of many human manipulations of this land.”
fosseway
  1. A Roman military road with a fosse or ditch on each side to keep it dry.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Cars and other vehicles queued for hours to reach the fair, backing up through Stow Square and up to the Fosseway.”
      “Mr Allen spent six weeks in intensive care after the accident when scaffolding being carried in a truck smashed through the windscreen of his Fosseway Coaches bus.”
      “It happened at the junction of Shortbutts Lane and the Fosseway in Lichfield on Monday afternoon.”
fossa
  1. A carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar, Cryptoprocta ferox.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The basisphenoid bears a deep, central depression at this point called the sella turcica or pituitary fossa.”
      “The sigmoid may lie in the abdomen just inferior to the splenic flexure of the transverse colon, or in the right iliac fossa.”
      “The cystic artery is ligated and transected and the gallbladder is dissected from the gallbladder fossa and the right hepatic lobe.”
fossula
  1. (anatomy) A small fossa.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The fossula of the cyrtometopinines slopes deeply down rearwards into the axial furrow joining the S3 apodeme.”
fosses
fossas
  1. plural of fossa (the mammal)
  2. Examples:
    1. “The explanation for the strange appearance of fossas and other Madagascar animals goes back some 160 million years ago in geologic time.”
      “Their big ears help them search for food and hear such enemies as catlike fossas.”
      “He has trapped fossas, examined them thoroughly and equipped some with radio collars to track their activities once they are back in the wild.”
fosseways
  1. plural of fosseway
fossanes
  1. plural of fossane
fossulae
  1. plural of fossula
fossae
  1. plural form of fossa
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  3. Examples:
    1. “If one classifies CSF leaks according to location they may be found in the anterior, middle or posterior cranial fossae.”
      “The capitate processes are small and visible through the supratemporal fenestrae dorsally, fitting within fossae in the postorbitals.”
      “Rostrum dilated towards its anterior end, compressed and carinate beneath the large presphenoid fossae.”
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