Bone: Canine fossa | |
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Left maxilla. Outer surface. | |
Gray's | subject #38 |
Lateral to the incisive fossa is another depression, the canine fossa; it is larger and deeper than the incisive fossa, and is separated from it by a vertical ridge, the canine eminence, corresponding to the socket of the canine tooth; the canine fossa gives origin to the Caninus.
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