Usually means: Depression near femur's greater trochanter.
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  1. trochanteric fossa: Dictionary.com
  2. Trochanteric fossa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Trochanteric fossa: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Trochanteric fossa: Encyclopedia

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  1. trochanteric fossa: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Trochanteric fossa: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. trochanteric fossa, Trochanteric fossa: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Trochanteric fossa)

noun:  In mammals including humans, the medial surface of the greater trochanter has at its base a deep depression bounded posteriorly by the intertrochanteric crest, called the trochanteric fossa.


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