glenoid fossa

Questions about glenoid fossa

What is another word for glenoid fossa?

It depends which glenoid fossa you mean. In the sense “a deep concavity in the temporal bone at the root of the zygomatic arch that receives the condyle of the mandible”, the synonyms are mandibular fossa. Across all 2 senses there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of glenoid fossa?

WordNet records no antonym for glenoid fossa. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for glenoid fossa split into groups?

Because glenoid fossa carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for glenoid fossa come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of glenoid fossa

• Full entry for glenoid fossaAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for glenoid fossaWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.