Response to David: some books say that fossa is pronounced 'foosh', which would agree with your comment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giant hoatzins of doom] Reference

Dorian - a "fossa" - looks to us like a cross between a dog, a cat, a bat and a gerbil - or maybe a bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference

The remnant of the foramen ovale is known as the fossa ovalis.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Above the fossa is the infraorbital foramen, the end of the infraorbital canal; it transmits the infraorbital vessels and nerve.    From Wordnik.com.  [II. Osteology. 5b. 2. The Maxillæ (Upper Jaw)] Reference

Does that mean we should expect a post on the fossa?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cupar roe deer carcass] Reference

Shove it up through the nasal fossa right after birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the World to Come]

"Porta del'infierno, fossa dei giganti," it read in Italian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Predictably Unpredictable] Reference

Opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone. fossa (fossae).    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Oral fossa: in Mallophaga, a furrow lying in front of the mandibles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

The outer rim or helix spirals up out of the bowl-like conchal fossa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

Shown here in a very cat-like scratching position, the fossa loves to hunt lemurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Big, previously unknown palm tree discovered! « Skulls in the Stars] Reference

For no other reason except wanting to paint the fossa I threw it in there as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [bad dreams good nightmares] Reference

M, fossa ovalis, oval depression, partition between the auricles formed after birth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

Fellow artist , Lars Grant West recently sent me an email with the animal , the fossa.    From Wordnik.com.  [bad dreams good nightmares] Reference

The temporal fossa are deep, the bones are salient, and the elevated zygomata combined with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference

“Most people forget to show the leg of the helix descending into the conchal fossa,” he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Things to Remember] Reference

The inner fossa is opposite the external abdominal ring, and is known as the triangle of Hesselbach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

It splits at the top into the superior and inferior crux or leg, with the triangular fossa in between.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

The temporalis, located in the temporal fossa of the skull, opens and closes the jaw, as does the masseter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muscles Part 2] Reference

This gland is known as the caudal gland and the depression containing it as the caudal pit or caudal fossa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference

The spongy bones, X W, are attached to the outer wall of the nasal fossa, and are situated one above the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Anatomy] Reference

Antennal fossa - w: grooves or cavities in which antennae are located or concealed: = a. grooves: antennary fossa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Inter Socraticos notissima fossa cinædos, followed by Firmicus (vii. 14) who speaks of “Socratici pædicones.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Direct fractures of the base, on the other hand, were of common occurrence, especially in the anterior fossa of the skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

Local tenderness, pain, and immobility developed over the lower quarter of the abdomen, extending to the right iliac fossa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference

Fractures of the anterior fossa of the skull were attended by very marked evidence of orbital hæmorrhage, as subconjunctival ecchymosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre] Reference