Hiatus of the facial canal
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Coronal section of right temporal bone. | |
Gray's | subject #34 142 |
A shallow groove, sometimes double, leading lateralward and backward to an oblique opening, the hiatus of the facial canal, for the passage of the greater superficial petrosal nerve and the petrosal branch of the middle meningeal artery.
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