Petrotympanic fissure
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| Petrotympanic fissure | |
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| Left temporal bone. Outer surface. (Petrotympanic fissure is labeled at left, fourth from top.) | |
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| The right membrana tympani with the hammer and the chorda tympani, viewed from within, from behind, and from above. (Glaserian fissure labeled at center left.) | |
| Latin | f. petrotympanica |
| Gray's | subject #34 140 |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | f_08/12365631 |
The mandibular fossa is bounded, in front, by the articular tubercle; behind, by the tympanic part of the bone, which separates it from the external acoustic meatus; it is divided into two parts by a narrow slit, the petrotympanic fissure (Glaserian fissure).
It opens just above and in front of the ring of bone into which the tympanic membrane is inserted; in this situation it is a mere slit about 2 mm. in length. It lodges the anterior process and anterior ligament of the malleus, and gives passage to the anterior tympanic branch of the internal maxillary artery.
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