Supratonsillar fossa
Fossa supratonsillaris
Definition
The lymphoid mass of palatine tonsils does not completely fill the interval between the two arches, so that a small depression, the supratonsillar fossa, exists at the upper part of the interval.
References
This definition incorporates text from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy (20th U.S. edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body, published in 1918 – from http://www.bartleby.com/107/).
