Fossa Anatomy

The occipital bones including temporal bone sphenoid bone parietal bone and the frontal bone put up to its concave wall. The antecubital fossa is the shallow depression located in front of the median cubital vein of your arm.

Anatomy Group D Temporal Fossa

Cerebral fossa any of the depressions on the floor of the cranial cavity.

Fossa anatomy. Glenoid cavity glenoid fossa the concavity in the head of the scapula that receives the head of the humerus to form the shoulder joint. It has a mongoose like head relatively longer than that of a cat although with a muzzle that is broad and short and with large but rounded ears. The cubital fossa is triangular in shape and thus has three borders.

In anatomy a hollow or depressed area. Condylar fossa condyloid fossa either of two pits on the lateral portion of the occipital bone. Gross anatomy it is located superior and posterior to the torus tubarius the posterior projection of.

A trench or channel. Amygdaloid fossa the depression in which the tonsil is lodged. The popliteal fossa is a diamond shaped area located on the posterior aspect of the knee.

It is the main path by which vessels and nerves pass between the thigh and the leg. Lateral border medial border of the brachioradialis muscle. Medial border lateral border of the pronator teres muscle.

The fossa of rosenmüller also known as the posterolateral pharyngeal recess is the most common site of origin for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. In this article we shall look at the anatomy of the popliteal fossa its borders contents and clinical correlations. Fossa a concavity in a surface especially an anatomical depression pit.

The median cubital vein joins the two longest vessels that run up the length of your arm. Blood vessels are located deep to the nerves within the fossa and include. Superior border hypothetical line between the epicondyles of the humerus.

The superomedial aspect of the popliteal fossa is bounded by the semimembranosus and. The popliteal fossa is 25 cm wide and mainly consists of fat tissue. The fossa appears as a diminutive form of a large felid such as a cougar but with a slender body and muscular limbs and a tail nearly as long as the rest of the body.

The temporal fossa is a shallow depression on the temporal lines and one of the be massive marks on the skull.

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