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temporal fossa

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English

Syllables
tem-po-ral -fos-sa
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A broad fossa on the side of the skull of higher vertebrates behind the orbit that contains muscles for raising the lower jaw and that in humans is occupied by the temporalis muscle, is separated from the orbit by the zygomatic bone, is bounded laterally by the zygomatic arch, and lies above the infratemporal crest of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone.

Inflected Forms

temporal fossae (plural)

Questions

What does temporal fossa mean?
A broad fossa on the side of the skull of higher vertebrates behind the orbit that contains muscles for raising the lower jaw and that in humans is occupied by the temporalis muscle, is separated from the orbit by the zygomatic bone, is bounded laterally by the zygomatic arch, and lies above the infratemporal crest of the greater wing of the sphenoid bone.

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