Biology:Canine fossa
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Short description: Depression in the jaw
| Canine fossa | |
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 Left maxilla. Outer surface. | |
| Details | |
| Identifiers | |
| Latin | fossa canina |
| Anatomical terms of bone | |
The canine fossa is a depression lateral to the incisive fossa of the maxilla in the musculoskeletal anatomy of the human head. It is larger and deeper than the comparable incisive fossa, and it is separated from it by a vertical ridge, the canine eminence, corresponding to the socket of the canine tooth.
See also
- Fossa
References
This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)
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