Fossa navicularis
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Fossa navicularis is an alternate name for two different boat
-shaped depressions:
Boat
A boat is a watercraft of any size designed to float or plane, to provide passage across water. Usually this water will be inland or in protected coastal areas. However, boats such as the whaleboat were designed to be operated from a ship in an offshore environment. In naval terms, a boat is a...
-shaped depressions:
- fossa of vestibule of vaginaFossa of vestibule of vaginaThe fossa of vestibule of vagina is a boat-shaped depression between the vagina/hymen and the frenulum labiorum pudendi. The small openings of the Bartholin's ducts can be seen in the grooves between the hymen and the labia minora, on either side.-See also:* Vulval vestibule...
- navicular fossa of male urethraNavicular fossa of male urethraThe cavernous portion of the urethra is narrow, and of uniform size in the body of the penis, measuring about 6 mm in diameter; it is dilated behind, within the bulb, and again anteriorly within the glans penis, where it forms the fossa navicularis urethræ....