FOSSA - Translation from English into German

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fossa¹ [ˈfɒsə] N ANAT

fossa: Fossa f

fossa: Grube f <-, -n>

fossa² N ZOOL

fossa: Fossa f

fossa: Frettkatze f

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antecubital fossa N

antecubital fossa (elbow pit) ANAT spec: Ellenbeuge f

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If a stethoscope is placed over the brachial artery in the antecubital fossa in a normal person (without arterial disease), no sound should be audible.

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The lens within the eye is fixed with the fibres of suspensory apparatus and if these fibres break, the lens becomes dislocated from fossa hyaloidea (shallow fossa for the lens in the front side of vitreous body) into the anterior or posterior eye chamber or vitreous body.

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Die Linse wird im Auge von einem Aufhängeapparat, der aus vielen Fasern besteht, in ihrer Position gehalten. Werden die Faser beschädigt, die Linse fällt aus der Fossa hyaloidea (flaches Grübchen in der Vorderseite des Glaskörpers) in die vordere oder hintere Augenkammer, bzw. in den Glaskörperraum.

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CT scan showed a circumscribed lesion of 2 x 3 x 3,5 cm in diameter in the right pterygopalatine fossa without signs of invasion. Density was similar to fat tissue.

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Im CT konnte ein ca. 2x3x3,5cm großer, glatt gegrenzter, in der Dichte Fett entsprechender, am ehesten benigner Tumor mit flüssigkeitsdichten Binnenstrukturen der rechten Fossa pterygopalatina nachgewiesen werden bei verdrängenden, nicht infiltrierenden Wachstum.

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