"Fossae" is a word in ENGLISH

Of or pertaining to the diameter of the cranium, from one parietal fossa to the other.

The temple or temporal fossa. Also used adjectively.

A depression in the sphenoid bone; the pituitary fossa.

A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the …

In tbe oivil law. A ditch; a receptacle of water, made by hand. Dig. 43, 14, 1, 5

A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet.

See Fossa.

A slight depression or pit; a fossa.

Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the …

Lat. In the civil law. A trench. A place sunk by the side of a stream, so called because it …

Below the clavicle; as, the infraclavicular fossa.

Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle.

Between condyles; as, the intercondylar fossa or notch of the femur.

Of or pertaining to the pituitary body; as, the pituitary fossa.

Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.

The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, …

The point on the side of the skull where the temporal line, or upper edge of the temporal fossa, crosses …

Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa.

A groove; a fossa; as, the vallecula, or fossa, which separates the hemispheres of the cerebellum.

A median process on the front part of the neural arch of the vertebrae of most snakes and some lizards, …