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Foramen: Any opening
Fossa: A depression, eg. the base of skull that cradles occipital lobe
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What are the openings in the fetal heart?
Foramen ovale ...i take a medical assistant course
Can fossa swim?
the fossa's paws help the fossa to swim the paws are like paddleds
What is the posterior fossa?
A small, hollow section between the lower cerebellum and skull
What is a fossa?
A fossa is a shallow depression in a bone.
What is fossa?
A fossa is a shallow depression in a bone.
What fetal structure gives rise to the fossa ovalis?
The Foramen Ovale gives rise to the Fossa Ovalis. In most individuals, the foramen ovale closes at birth. It later forms the fossa ovalis.
What is the name for the membrane that covers the foramen ovale after birth?
fossa ovalis
What were Two remnants of fetal structures are observable in the heart what were they called in the fetal heart?
Fossa ovalis and ligamentum. Fossa ovalis -> foramen lovale Ligamentum-> Ductus arteriosus
What is the difference between the male and female obturator foramen?
The foramen in males is large and oval shaped (almost a flattened isoceles triangle). The foramen in females is much more triangular, as well as smaller.
What was the fossa ovalis called in the fetal heart?
In the fetal hear the fossa ovalis was known as the foramen ovale, which allows blood to pass from the right to the left atrium, thus bypassing the fetal lungs.
What is a bone marking name that indicates a projection that helps to form a joint meatus ramus foramen fossa epicondyle?
Ramus.
What bony landmark is defined as a pit or socket?
A fossa is a bony landmark defined as a pit or socket.
What were the ligamentum arteriosum and the fossa ovalis called in the fetal heart?
the fossa ovalis was the foramen ovale and the ligamentum arteriosum was the ductus arteriosus. They each contributed to shunting blood away from the non-functional lungs in the fetus.
The major anatomical difference between hominids and the apes is that the foramen magnum of hominids is?
The major anatomical difference between hominids and the apes is that the foramen magnum of hominids islocated at the bottom of the skull.
The major anatomical difference between hominids and the apes is that the foramen magnum is what in hominds?
located at the bottom of the skull
Foramen between pubic and ischial ramus?
Obturator foramen
What do the ductus arteriosus and the foramen ovale become at birth?
Ligamentum arteriosum and the fossa ovalis. That is to say the arterial ligament and the oval depression (found in the left ventricle).
