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middle cranial fossa (medicine) and Amharic language (sh)


middle cranial fossa (medicine)


middle cranial fossa


A butterfly-shaped portion of the internal base of the skull posterior to the sphenoidal ridges and limbus and anterior to the crests of the petrous part of the temporal bones and dorsum sellae; it lodges the temporal lobes of the brain in the lateral portions, and the hypophysis centrally.

Synonym: fossa cranii media.


Amharic language (sh)




Semitic language of Ethiopia.

Amharic is spoken by more than 18 million people as a first language and is used as a lingua franca throughout much of central highland Ethiopia. Its status as a de facto national language is largely due to the long dominance of the Ethiopian monarchy by Amhara sovereigns. Amharic is written in a modified form of the partly syllabic, partly alphabetic script used to write Ge?ez, the classical language of Christian Ethiopian civilization (see Ethiopic Languages). Though manuscripts in Amharic are known from the 14th century, the language has only recently been used as a General medium for literature, journalism, and Education.