Definitions for fossa

fossa fos·sa

Spelling: [fos-uh]
IPA: /ˈfɒs ə/

Fossa is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in fossa (afoss).

Definitions for fossa

noun

  1. a pit, cavity, or depression, as in a bone.
  2. a forest-dwelling genetlike mammal, Cryptoprocta ferox, of the civet family, native to Madagascar, with a short coat of white, black, gray, or brown: now rare.

Origin of fossa

1820-30; Latin: ditch, trench, fosse, short for fossa (terra) dug or dug out (earth), noun use of feminine of fossus, past participle of fodere to dig

Examples for fossa

The lower division of the peritoneal recess thus produced corresponds to the typical (vascular) “fossa of Treitz.”

This fossa opens caudad and extends cephalad to the root of the transverse mesocolon.

There was already a perceptible fulness, with dulness on percussion, in the fossa, and some febrile excitement.

The inferior mesenteric vessels are found near the left margin of the entrance into the fossa.

In many cases the vessels run at some distance from the folds bounding the fossa.

Between the helix and the antihelix is the fossa of the helix.

The second gives the best text of Odassi, fossa, and the Virgiliana.

This ridge and fossa are on the lateral surface of the ramus.

Its development, enormous in the carnivora, is such that the muscle projects beyond its fossa.

In many instances this will be the only fold and fossa encountered in the adult human subject.

Word Value for fossa
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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