Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mandibular_fossa

1 sense of mandibular fossa

Sense 1
glenoid fossa, mandibular fossa -- (a deep concavity in the temporal bone at the root of the zygomatic arch that receives the condyle of the mandible)
       => pit, fossa -- (a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression))