Usually means: Depression in ear's outer part.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Scaphoid fossa)

noun:  In the pterygoid processes of the sphenoid, above the pterygoid fossa is a small, oval, shallow depression, the scaphoid fossa, which gives origin to the tensor veli palatini.


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