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Example sentences for "fossa"

Lexicographically close words:
forwards; forwent; foryete; forz; forza; fossae; fosse; fossero; fosses; fossicker
  1. NF, neural fossa protecting the aggregated ganglia of the central nervous system; PVP, left posterior ventral process; PMP, posterior median process.

  2. The interauricular septum is mostly entirely membranous; in the middle it is thinner, rather transparent, but there is no depression or fossa ovalis.

  3. Here the temporal fossa is bridged over by the junction of the post-frontal and squamosal processes (pf.

  4. The ventral portion of the neck is formed by the strong crista inferior, on the median side of which is the deep fossa subtrochanterica by which air sacs enter the humerus.

  5. The town itself, the Roman Fossa Claudia, is a smaller edition of Venice, joined like it to the mainland by a bridge.

  6. The region of the skull, in the temporal fossa back of the orbit, where the great wing of the sphenoid, the temporal, the parietal, and the frontal hones approach each other.

  7. Situated behind the glenoid fossa of the temporal bone.

  8. This fossa is roofed over by the epithelium lining the cavity of the ventricle, by pia mater and blood-vessels constituting a choroid plexus (fig.

  9. The city is encircled on the north by a branch of the Po, called the Fossa Asconis, and on the south by the Po itself, which is called the Eridanus, and which is there known as the King of Rivers.

  10. Fossa grande, made by the currents of rain water; it is not less than two hundred feet deep, and a hundred broad; yet the lava in one place has filled it up.

  11. The lava that ran in the Fossa Grande during the last eruption, and is at least two hundred feet thick, is not yet cool; a stick, put into its crevices, takes fire immediately.

  12. The iliac fossa are wider in the former than in the latter; the superior inlet or brim is elliptical or reniform in woman, in the form of a playing-card heart in man, etc.

  13. Another important malformation connected with the ear, which is commonly found in idiots, is a prolongation and restriction of the intertragical fossa into a fissure (fissura intertragica).

  14. This is the concavity, the internal fossa of the auricle, which leads to the channel of the internal ear.

  15. The Malagasy fossane (Fossa daubentoni), which has but little markings on the fur of the adult, differs by the absence of a scent-pouch and the presence of a couple of bare spots on the under surface of the metatarsus.

  16. The condyle of the lower jaw is a transversely placed half-cylinder working in a deep glenoid fossa of corresponding form.

  17. The postglenoid process of the skull so strongly developed, and the glenoid fossa so deep, that the condyle of the lower jaw is firmly held in place after the soft parts are removed.

  18. Press in the cloister at the Cistercian Abbey of Fossa Nuova 83 20.

  19. Groundplan of part of the Abbey of Fossa Nuova.

  20. Ground-plan of part of the Abbey of Fossa Nuova.

  21. This valuable work contains a full and accurate description, copiously illustrated, of Fossa Nuova and other abbeys in remote parts of Italy.

  22. Cistercian monastery of Fossa Nuova in Central Italy, near Terracina, which I visited in the spring of 1900.

  23. Press in the cloister at the Cistercian Abbey of Fossa Nuova.

  24. B) is a little to the north of the room, as at Fossa Nuova.

  25. Distally, the two major condyles and the intercondylar groove or olecranon fossa that make efficient articulation with the ulnar process, are not variable.

  26. The religious of Fossa Nuova committed all that was mortal of S.

  27. The rumour of his proximity reached the Benedictine Abbey of Fossa Nuova, six miles from the castle.

  28. This pocket or fossa which is the most important and constant of the peritoneal recesses in the neighborhood of the caecum, opens upward and to the left.

  29. The duodenal fossa in this case is bounded by an "upper" and "lower" duodenal fold continuous with each other on the left side, but separated on the right at their attachment to the duodenum.

  30. A second peritoneal pocket or fossa is encountered in the region of the sigmoid flexure and its mesocolon.

  31. This inclusion of the vena cava in the fissure or fossa of that name on the dorsal surface of the liver affords, so to speak, the vertical measure of the non-peritoneal area of the liver attached directly to the diaphragm.

  32. The ectoderm lining the bottom of this anal fossa or depression is separated by a little mesoderm tissue from the entodermal lining of the blind pouch of the caudal gut.

  33. The intermediate fold, short in its caecal attachment, does not meet the dorsal vascular fold at any point, consequently the ileo-caecal fossa is not limited caudad toward the root of the appendix.

  34. This depression increases in depth until a distinct anal invagination results, known as the proctodaeum, which grows as a funnel-shaped fossa toward the blind termination of the endgut.

  35. The well-marked duodenal fossa is bounded by a superior and inferior duodenal fold, uniting laterally in a crescentic margin containing a segment of the inferior mesenteric vein and colica sinistra artery.

  36. The open mouth of the fossa looks to the left.

  37. Footnote 416: This anonymous poet has been variously identified with Odassi and with Fossa of Cremona.

  38. The femur is quite like that of a horse, and has the characteristic fossa above the external condyle.

  39. The femur is more like that of the Paloeotheria than that of the horse, and has only a small depression above its outer condyle in the place of the great fossa which is so obvious in the Equidoe.

  40. Tibiae not dilated as in "f"; spongy fossa elongate; metapleural sulci close to the margin.

  41. Apical portion of anterior tibiae angularly dilated beneath, the spongy fossa being preceded by a small prominence.

  42. On the posterior or septal wall, between the two auricles, is an oval depression, called the fossa ovalis (fig.

  43. On the septal wall is a small depression like the mark of a finger-nail, which corresponds to the anterior part of the fossa ovalis and often forms a valvular communication with the right auricle.

  44. The femur is more like that of the Palaeotheria than that of the horse, and has only a small depression above its outer condyle in the place of the great fossa which is so obvious in the Equidae.

  45. But the Council was never to see Thomas, for he fell ill when traversing the Campagna, and though he was able to reach the Cistercian Abbey of Fossa Nuova he reached it only to die.

  46. So usual was the penalty in the middle ages that grants of life and death jurisdiction were worded to be "cum fossa et furca" (i.

  47. Insertion on the lips of the fossa also probably occurred.

  48. The lateral edge of the flange passes obliquely across the anterior lip of the Meckelian fossa and abuts against the bottom lip of the fossa when the jaw is closed.

  49. The subtemporal fossa is essentially triangular, and its broad end is bounded anteriorly by the pterygoid flange.

  50. From a functional standpoint it is doubtful that a major component of the adductors arose from the quadrate wing of the pterygoid, for when the jaw is closed the Meckelian fossa is directly lateral to that bone.

  51. The muscle passed into the Meckelian fossa of the mandible and inserted on the angular, surangular, prearticular, coronoid and dentary bones.

  52. Insertion was in the Meckelian fossa and on the dorsal surface of the adjoining coronoid process.

  53. In anterior aspect the fibers were obliquely oriented, since the jaw and subtemporal fossa are lateral to much of the skull-roof from which the fibers arose.

  54. A small hollow above the ridge, anterior to the glenoid cavity, faces the medial plane of the skull and is bordered by the articular bone behind and above, and by the Meckelian fossa in front.

  55. The coronoid process in Captorhinus is not oriented vertically, but slopes inward toward the midline at approximately 45 degrees, effectively roofing the Meckelian fossa and limiting its opening to the median surface of each ramus.

  56. The fossa is lateral to much of the adductor chamber; consequently muscles arising from the parietals passed ventrolaterally, parallel to the oblique quadrate ramus of the pterygoid, to their attachment on the mandible.

  57. The muscle usually arises from the epipterygoid and nearby areas of the braincase and skull roof and inserts in the anterior parts of the fossa of the jaw.


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