temporal fossa (English, noun)
expansion: temporal fossa (plural temporal fossae)
Senses:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: temporal fossae
tags: plural