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internal auditory meatus

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noun

Anatomy.
  1. the canal extending through the petrous portion of the temporal bone, through which the glossopharyngeal nerve, the facial nerve, and the auditory nerve and artery pass.


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Specifically, I’d like to acquaint you with the internal auditory meatus.

From Slate Oct. 13, 2021

The internal auditory meatus is located due south of the temporal bone.

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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