Coronal section of the right temporal bone

About this plate

Coronal section of the right temporal bone. Coronal view of the ear.

Region

ear

Structure

middle ear

View

coronal

System

bone, special sense

Focus

tympanic cavity, mastoid antrum and air cells, auditory tube, facial canal

Structures labelled on this plate

• Tympanic antrum
• Tegmen tympani
• Prominence of lateral semicircular canal
• Prominence of facial canal
• Fenestra vestibuli
• Bristle in semicanal for Tensor tympani
• Septum canalis musculotubarii
• Bristle in hiatus of facial canal
• Carotid canal
• Bony part of auditory tube
• Promontory
• Bristle in pyramid
• Fenestra cochleae
• Sulcus tympanicus
• Bristle in stylomastoid foramen
• Mastoid cells

Source: After Gray's Anatomy (1918). Public domain (Gray's Anatomy, 1918), modernized rendering.