fossae
- plural of fossa.
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The floor of the cranial cavity increases in depth from front to back and is divided into three cranial fossae.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
All of these fossae provide large surface areas for the attachment of muscles that cross the shoulder joint to act on the humerus.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Posteriorly, the spine separates the supraspinous and infraspinous fossae, and then extends laterally as the acromion.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
In, err, long… muscles – particularly big, strong muscles like those involved in any hypothetical trunk – leave visible attachment sites, such as crests, scars, or fossae.
From Scientific American • Nov. 20, 2012
The openings for the internal nares, the ventral orbital fenestrae, and the subtemporal fossae are readily recognized.
From A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia From the Pennsylvanian of Kansas by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)
