Crossword-Solution: FOSSAE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| FossAe | pl. | of Fossa |
We have 8 clues for the answer “FOSSAE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bone hollows | 1 answer |
| Depressions in the skull. | 1 answer |
| Bone depressions | 2 answers |
| A COMPLEX SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTING CAVITIES | 10 answers |
| AFFECTED WITH CAVITIES OR DECAY | 10 answers |
| BONE CAVITIES | 10 answers |
| ANATOMICAL CAVITIES | 12 answers |
| Cavities | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEACEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FOSSAE (5)
Molinier has an observation on the extraction of a fragment of a knife-blade which had rested four years in the nasal fossae, where the blade had broken off during a quarrel.
Its _condyles_, which we saw just now in the _Carnivora_ enlarged transversely and deeply embedded in the _fossae_ or cavity of the temporal bone, extend here longitudinally; an arrangement which enables the jaw to move backward and forward at pleasure, like the arm of the locksmith when using the file.
THE ANATOMY OF THE NOSE.--The nose is divided by a middle partition (septum) into two cavities (nasal chambers or fossae) each being a wedge-shaped cavity, distinct by itself and extending from the nostril or anterior nares in front to the posterior openings behind and from the base of the skull to the hard palate below.
The lungs will show equal aeration, but there may be marked dyspnea without the indrawing of the fossae, if the object be of large size and located below the manubrium.
The characteristic signs are inspiratory indrawing of the supraclavicular fossae, the suprasternal notch, the epigastrium, and the lower sternum and ribs.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1944–1990).