(n.) A pit, groove, cavity, or depression, of greater or less depth; as, the temporal fossa on the side of the skull; the nasal fossae containing the nostrils in most birds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 38 control fetuses had normal-appearing posterior fossae.
(2) These cases show that an examination of the whole neuraxis is as important in patients with midline posterior fossa cysts as it is in patients with developmental syringomyelia or Chiari I malformation.
(3) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(4) In 5 of the 7 patients with an initially abnormal pituitary fossa, serial radiological studies revealed remodelling in 3.
(5) (b) abnormal morphologic of the glenoid fossa, mandibulars condyle and the neck of mandibula were seen.
(6) The blood flow velocity waveform recorded noninvasively from the brachial artery in the antecubital fossa was used as basis for quantitatively estimating a stroke flow index.
(7) This can be combined with a middle fossa approach in patients with a positive Schirmer's test.
(8) Because of the inherent limitations of computed tomography in the visualization of posterior fossa structures, MR imaging should be considered the initial screening procedure in the assessment of patients with trigeminal neuralgia.
(9) To identify the origin of scalp-recorded far-field negativity of short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials to median nerve stimulation (designated N18), direct records were made from the thalamus and ventricular system during 4 stereotaxic and 3 posterior fossa operations.
(10) Two term newborn infants born by frank breech delivery had posterior fossa hemorrhage diagnosed by CT scan within the first 72 hours of life and underwent successful surgical drainage of hematoma.
(11) Warts were confined to the lips in 27 (56%) of 48 patients with meatal warts; in an additional 5 patients with meatal warts the warts arose from deep in the fossa navicularis and in 16 patients with meatal warts there were additional warts in the fossa navicularis invisible on clinical examination.
(12) A comparative cephalometric and tomographic study prior to the treatment and after completion of the treatment revealed the following results: an improvement in the occlusal relationships due to both skeletal (an anterior mandibular displacement and an increase in the mandibular length) and dentoalveolar changes; it was possible to produce a growth stimulation of the mandibular condyle associated with a translation of the glenoid fossa by using an elastic activator; there was a direct correlation between the effects of the treatment and the age period of the patients (mixed dentition).
(13) Epistaxis was common in tumors of the ethmoid sinus and nasal fossae, while pain was related to lesions of the maxillary sinus.
(14) Eleven of 15 patients had middle cranial fossa involvement; cavernous sinus extension was observed in six patients.
(15) Stab wounds to the temporal fossa appear as a characteristic clinical entity.
(16) Our impression is that preoperative carotid artery occlusion and a middle fossa approach for tumor resection can be performed in a young patient with acceptable morbidity and at least short-term benefit.
(17) The other structures or regions that were involved, in decreasing order of frequency, were the sphenoid sinus (26.7%), nasal fossa (21.8%), and ethmoid sinus (18.3%).
(18) The association of an arachnoidal cyst in the middle cranial fossa with a subdural haematoma or intracystic bleeding is emphasised.
(19) At the same time the data are obtained on variations in topography of the chorda tympani at various form of the intratemporal fossa.
(20) A patent cochlear aqueduct indicated on computed tomography scan was found and repaired through a posterior cranial fossa approach.
Fosse
Definition:
(n.) A ditch or moat.
(n.) See Fossa.
Example Sentences:
(1) The method by Fosse et al, for in vivo microhardness measurements can bring good results in practice according to the investigations.
(2) I asked Jon Fosse how close they were, and he said, 'I don't know, but in the period of time in the play they are very close.'
(3) Property sources said Asda was looking at reducing the size of as many as 10 stores including Pudsey in Leeds, Fosse Park in Leicester, and Watford in Hertfordshire.
(4) OS Map: Explorer OL4: The Lake District: north-western area Janet's Foss & Malham Cove Yorkshire Dales Janet's Foss waterfall at Malham, North Yorkshire.
(5) Changes in the vasomotion waveform were studied in transverse arterioles (TAs) and their first-order side branches (FOSs) in the tenuissimus muscle of 14 young, anesthetized rabbits during stepwise arterial pressure reduction and local application of adenosine using intravital video microscopy.
(6) Because the onsets of dilation always occur synchronously in TAs and FOSs, but the onsets of constriction do not, vasomotion seems to be a series of rhythmic dilations.
(7) Householders in York were warned their homes faced flooding after pumps failed on the river Foss, and train services were disrupted in West Yorkshire.
(8) Females scored significantly higher on the FOSS than did males; the FOSS was positively related to Horner's projective measure of fear of success, and negatively related to Mehrabian's measure of achievement motivation; subjects (both males and females) with high scores on the FOSS (a) performed less well on an anagram test, (b) attributed success more to external factors, and (c) attributed failure more to internal factors than subjects with low scores on the FOSS.
(9) Another new project, I Am the Wind , is every bit as multinational – a translation of a text by Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse , shortly to be staged at the Young Vic by veteran French director Patrice Chéreau.
(10) One such place was a grim-looking slag heap officially called Fosse No 4 in Ferfay, Nord–Pas-de-Calais.
(11) The authors studied by in vivo methods (Fosse et al.
(12) Although air studies remain useful, angiography of vessels of the posterior foss is assuming a dominant role in diagnosis and surgical planning.
(13) According to Stephens: "It imagines the possibility of turning back time, but Fosse creates a rather horrifying loop, whereby no matter how many times you turn back time you find you can't change it.
(14) The Crown Estate is also the fifth largest owner of retail parks outside of London and is the frontrunner to spend £350m buying the Fosse shopping park in Leicester, amid a recovery in consumer spending.
(15) The jewel in the crown is the waterfall at Janet's Foss and its secret cave, which local legend claims is home to the Fairy Queen.
(16) It would be the "lightest" film to win a Palme d'Or, maybe since Bob Fosse's All That Jazz in 1980, but the skill involved and the sheer brio of the execution merit the highest recognition.
(17) The play he is rehearsing is I Am The Wind, a spare, concentrated two-hander written by the Norwegian Jon Fosse and adapted for its English-language premiere by Simon Stephens , who wrote Pornography and Punk Rock.
(18) At greatly reduced pressure levels, the CL increase was more pronounced and in both TAs and FOSs was caused by plateau formation in the dilation phase.
(19) The path off the Pennine Way leading to Janet's Foss is signposted off the Pennine Way, and at Malham Cove a clear path leads back to the village.
(20) We’re certainly not scared,” said Ray Foss, a retired engineer.