internal auditory meatus
Americannoun
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The internal auditory meatus is located due south of the temporal bone.
From Slate • Oct. 13, 2021
Specifically, I’d like to acquaint you with the internal auditory meatus.
From Slate • Oct. 13, 2021
They both emerge from the inner ear, pass through the internal auditory meatus, and synapse in nuclei of the superior medulla.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Macewen has pointed out that cerebral abscess never occurs from pyogenic organisms passing from the middle ear by way of the internal auditory meatus, although lepto-meningitis may do so.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
Acoustic or Auditory Nerve.—The acoustic nerve is liable to be damaged along with the facial in tumours of the cerebello-pontine angle, and in fractures which traverse the internal auditory meatus.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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