Fovea

(fo-ve'-ah). Applied to many depre ions in the body or its organs, but more particularly to the fovea central is retince, a little pit in the macula lutea opposite the visual axis, the spot of distinctest vision, where the retinal cones are ma ed together and the rods and some other parts are absent. It is opposite the center of the cornea. F. hem i elliptic a, rece us elliptic us; sinus semioval is; a small fo a on the inner wall of the labyrinth, between the fovea hemispheric a and the orifices of the semicircular canals. F. hemispheric a, rece us spheric us; a depre ion in the forepart of the inner wall of the labyrinth.