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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In anatomy, one of the numerous slight depressions on the surface of the brain.
  • noun A small fossa; specifically, a vacant space representing one of the primitive septa of certain corals, as the Rugosa, more fully called a septal fossula. Also fossule.

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  • noun anatomy A small fossa.

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From Latin fossula ("small ditch or trench").

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