Landmark · Skeletal system
Digastric fossa
Fossa digastrica
- System
- Skeletal system
- Regions
- Head
- Landmark on
- Mandible
DescriptionUnreviewed
The digastric fossa of the mandible is an anatomical region which occupies a space on the inner surface of the inferior border of the body of the mandible, near the midline bilaterally.
It is a position of attachment of the anterior belly of the digastric muscle.
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Names
- Latin
- Fossa digastrica
- English
- Digastric fossa
- French
- Fosse digastrique
- Spanish
- Fosa digástrica
- Portuguese
- Fossa digástrica