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fosilla

English translation: (gastric) pit / foveola

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Spanish term or phrase:fosilla
English translation:(gastric) pit / foveola
Entered by: Charles Davis

08:18 Mar 28, 2019
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Medical: Health Care / Mexican pathology report
Spanish term or phrase: fosilla
Good morning! I can't find this word in rae.org, nor does it show up as a term related to the stomach, only as an oral term.

Here's the context:
Se observa mucosa gástrica corporal y antral con epitelio superficial normal. Las FOSILLAS y las glándulas están discretamente diminuídas en número y revestidas por células mucosecretores, parietales, principales y algunas indiferenciadas.

I did see the "fosilla glosoepiglótica > vallecula epiglottica" entry on Proz.com. Would this apply to this context?

As always, a thousand thanks!
Julie Thompson
United States
Local time: 01:39
(gastric) pit / foveola
Explanation:
"Fosilla" or "fosita" refers to an anatomical feature also called "fovéola" in Spanish:

"fosita (foss(am) lat. ‘fosa’ + -ita esp. ‘pequeña’; docum. en esp. en uso anatómico desde 1870) [ingl. foveola, pit]
1  s.f. Fosa o depresión de pequeño tamaño.
SIN.: fovéola."
OBS.: Puede verse también "fosilla".
This is from the Real Academic Nacional de Medicina dictionary (subscription).

In English, as it says here, they are called foveolas or, more commonly, pits.

"Gastric pits are indentations in the stomach which denote entrances to 3-5 tubular shaped gastric glands. They are deeper in the pylorus than they are in the other parts of the stomach. The human stomach has several million of these pits which dot the surface of the lining epithelium. Surface mucous cells line the pits themselves but give way to a series of other types of cells which then line the glands themselves."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_pits
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 07:39
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(gastric) pit / foveola


Explanation:
"Fosilla" or "fosita" refers to an anatomical feature also called "fovéola" in Spanish:

"fosita (foss(am) lat. ‘fosa’ + -ita esp. ‘pequeña’; docum. en esp. en uso anatómico desde 1870) [ingl. foveola, pit]
1  s.f. Fosa o depresión de pequeño tamaño.
SIN.: fovéola."
OBS.: Puede verse también "fosilla".
This is from the Real Academic Nacional de Medicina dictionary (subscription).

In English, as it says here, they are called foveolas or, more commonly, pits.

"Gastric pits are indentations in the stomach which denote entrances to 3-5 tubular shaped gastric glands. They are deeper in the pylorus than they are in the other parts of the stomach. The human stomach has several million of these pits which dot the surface of the lining epithelium. Surface mucous cells line the pits themselves but give way to a series of other types of cells which then line the glands themselves."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastric_pits

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 07:39
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 136
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Asker: Thank you very much, and also to those who agree!


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agree  Chema Nieto Castañón
28 mins
  -> Gracias de nuevo, Chema ;-)
agree  Marie Wilson: Sounds convincing
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Marie :-) I think it's right.
agree  Martha Rice
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  -> Thanks, Martha :-)
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