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| Bone: Internal auditory meatus | ||
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| Left temporal bone. Inner surface. | ||
| Diagrammatic view of the fundus of the right internal acoustic meatus. | ||
| Latin | meatus acusticus internus | |
| Gray's | subject #34 143 | |
| Dorlands/Elsevier | m_06/12518154 | |
The internal acoustic meatus (also internal auditory meatus) is a canal in the temporal bone of the skull that carries nerves from inside the cranium towards the middle and inner ear compartments.
Structure[]
The opening to the internal acoustic meatus is located inside the cranial cavity, near the center of the posterior surface of the temporal bone. The size varies considerably; its margins are smooth and rounded. The canal is short (about 1 cm) and runs laterally into the bone. At its end are the openings for three different canals, one of which is the facial canal.
Unlike the external acoustic meatus, the internal acoustic meatus does not transmit sound. It instead transmits the facial and vestibulocochlear nerves and the internal auditory branch of the basilar artery. The facial nerve travels through the facial canal, eventually exiting the skull at the stylomastoid foramen.
The opening of the meatus is called the porus acusticus internus, or its English translation, the internal acoustic opening.
Additional images[]
See also[]
References[]
External links[]
- SUNY Figs 30:01-08
- Norman/Georgetown cranialnerves (VII)
- Diagram of Porus acusticus internus
- Diagram of Porus acusticus internus
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occipital bone: Foramen magnum | Squama occipitalis (Inion | Nuchal lines | Planum occipitale | Planum nuchale | Cruciform eminence | Internal occipital protuberance | Sagittal sulcus | Internal occipital crest) parietal bone: Parietal eminence | Temporal line | Parietal foramen frontal bone: Squama frontalis (Frontal suture | Frontal eminence | Superciliary arches | Glabella | Supraorbital foramen | Zygomatic process | Sagittal sulcus | Frontal crest | Foramen cecum) temporal bone: Squama temporalis (Articular tubercle | Suprameatal triangle | Mandibular fossa | Petrotympanic fissure) | Mastoid portion (Mastoid foramen sphenoid bone: Sphenoidal sinuses | Ethmoidal spine | Optic foramen | Sella turcica | Fossa hypophyseos | Dorsum sellae | Posterior clinoid processes | Carotid groove | Lingula sphenoidalis | Sphenoidal conchæ | Great wings (Spina angularis | Foramen rotundum | Foramen ovale | Foramen Vesalii | Foramen spinosum | Infratemporal crest | Sulcus tubae auditivae | Small wings | Superior orbital fissure | Anterior clinoid process | Optic foramen) ethmoid bone: Cribriform plate | Crista galli | Perpendicular plate | Labyrinth | Ethmoid sinus | Uncinate process | Middle nasal concha | Superior meatus | Superior nasal concha | Middle meatus |
Foramina of the skull (and canals and fissures) | |
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| Foramina |
cecum - ethmoidal (anterior, posterior) - incisive - jugular - lacerum - magnum - mandibular - mastoid - mental - optic - orbital (infraorbital, supraorbital) - ovale - palatine (greater, lesser) - parietal - rotundum - sphenopalatine - spinosum - stylomastoid - zygomaticofacial - zygomaticotemporal |
| Canals |
carotid - condylar - hypoglossal - incisive - pterygoid |
| Fissures |
orbital (inferior, superior) - petrotympanic |
| other |
external acoustic meatus - internal acoustic meatus - cribriform plate |
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