Ear Flashcards
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Lateral wall of middle ear
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Tympanic membrane
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Middle ear
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- Lies in temporal bone
- Lines by ciliated columnar epithelium
- Connected to the nasopharynx via auditory tube
- Connected to mastoid air cells via mastoid Antrum
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Posterior wall of middle ear
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Opening into the mastoid Antrum
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Anterior wall of middle ear
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Transmits the auditory tube and tensor tympani whose tendon attaches to the handle of the malleus
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Medial wall of middle ear
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Formed by promontory of the cochlea
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Great Auricular nerve
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Inferior part of ear
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Auriculotemporal nerve
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Upper lateral surface of external ear
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Lesser occipital nerve
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Skin posterior to ear