Definition of Fossa fossa

1. Noun. Civet of Madagascar.

Exact synonyms: Fanaloka
Generic synonyms: Civet, Civet Cat
Group relationships: Fossa, Genus Fossa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fossa Fossa

Fortitude of the Martyrs
Fortran compiler
Fortranlike
Fortuna
Fortune 500
Fortunella
Fortunella japonica
Fortunella margarita
Fos kinase
Fosamax
Fosbury
Fosbury flop
Foshan
Foshay test
Fossa fossa (current term)
Foster
Foster Kennedy's syndrome
Foster frame
Fothergill's disease
Fothergill's neuralgia
Fothergill's sign
Foucaldian
Foucauldian
Foucault
Foucault's pendulum
Foucault current
Foucault pendulum
Foucaultian

Literary usage of Fossa fossa

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"Navicular fossa. FOSSA ... fossa. FOSSA SIGMOIDEA, Snl'cut n'nui ¡ntera'lit. A broad deep groove on the inner surface of the mastoid portion of the temporal ..."

2. Anatomy of the Cat by Jacob Ellsworth Reighard, Herbert Spencer Jennings (1901)
"... of the spine and the cranial surface of the spine bound the supraspinous fossa (fossa supra- spinata) (/), while the surface caudad of the ..."

3. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science ... with French and Other by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"It consisted of a long band, applied round the head, the turns of which crossed at the root of the nose. FOSSA CANISA, Canine fossa. FOSSA CK. ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1910)
"Its outer half presents a deep excavation, the jugular fossa (fossa ... The glenoid fossa (fossa mandibularis) is a considerable hollow formed by the ..."

5. A Laboratory Manual of Human Anatomy by Lewellys Franklin Barker, Dean De Witt Lewis, Daniel Graisberry Revell (1904)
"(a) Inferior duodenal fossa (fossa duodenalis inferior). How frequently is this fossa ... (c) Duodenojejunal fossa (fossa duodeno je ..."

6. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray (1918)
"Anterior Fossa (fossa cranii anterior).-—The floor of the anterior fossa is ... The Middle Fossa (fossa cranii media).—The middle fossa, deeper than the ..."

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