Usually means: Central pit of the retina.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. fovea: Merriam-Webster
  2. fovea: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fovea: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fovea: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fovea: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fovea, fovea: Wordnik
  7. fovea: Wiktionary
  8. fovea: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. fovea: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fovea: Dictionary.com
  11. Fovea (disambiguation), Fovea (femur), Fovea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Fovea: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. fovea: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. fovea: Rhymezone
  15. Fovea: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. fovea: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. fovea: FreeDictionary.org
  18. fovea: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. fovea: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. fovea: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fovea: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fovea: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. fovea: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fovea: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Fovea: Glossary of Lasik Laser Eye Surgery
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Fovea: Visionary
  8. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  9. fovea: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  10. Fovea: Medical dictionary
  11. Fovea: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FOVEA: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fovea)

noun:  (anatomy) A slight depression or pit in a bone or organ.
noun:  (anatomy) The retinal fovea, or fovea centralis, responsible for sharp central vision.

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