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internal auditory meatus
noun
Anatomy.
- 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.
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The internal auditory meatus is located due south of the temporal bone.
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Cyar, sī′ar, n. the internal auditory meatus.
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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.
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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.
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