Sundays in Lent are not counted in the forty days because each Sunday represents a mini-Easter and the reverent spirit of Lent is tempered with joyful anticipation of the Resurrection.
The middle fossa, deeper than the anterior cranial fossa, is narrow medially and widens laterally to the sides of the skull.It is separated from the posterior fossa by the clivus and the petrous crest.ehind the tuberculum sellae sellÃ¦ is a deep, depression the sella, turcica containing the fossa, hypophyseos which lodges the, hypophysis and presents on its anterior wall the middle clinoid. processes
Each fossae accommodates a different part of the brain. The middle cranial fossa is located, as its name suggests, centrally in the cranial floor. It is said to be âbutterfly shapedâ, with a middle part accommodating the pituitary gland and two lateral parts accommodating the temporal lobes of the brain. The hypophysial fossa or pituitary fossa (seat of the saddle) sits in the middle of the sella trucica. 2  It is a depression in the body of the sphenoid, which holds the pituitary gland. 3  The dorsum sellae (back of the saddle) forms the posterior wall of the sella turcica.