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Epitympanic recess attic.
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Anterior epitympanic recess devansotology.
Aditus to mastoid antrum from wikipedia the free encyclopedia the aditus to mastoid antrum otomastoid foramen or entrance or aperture to the mastoid antrum is a large irregular cavity that leads backward from the epitympanic recess into a considerable air space named the tympanic or mastoid antrum.
The upper portion of the tympanic cavity or middle ear above the tympanic membrane.
The anterior epitympanic recess also known as the supratubal recess is a small discrete space in the epitympanum anterior to the malleus.
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It is parti tioned from the epitympanum proper attic by a coronally oriented bony septum the anterior attic bony plate or cog which is suspended from the anterior petrosal tegmen 1 2.
A small empty space or cavity.
It is that portion of the tympanic cavity superior to the axial plane between the tip of the scutum and the tympanic segment of the facial nerve 1 3.
If the perforation is marginal the position of the perforation is described as anterior inferior or posterior.
Called also attic and epitympanum.
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Very large central perforations are described as sub total and very large marginal perforations as total.
It is separated from the epitympanum proper by the cog.
The anterior epitympanic recess also called the supratubal recess is the small space in the epitympanum anterior to the malleus.
The epitympanum also known as the attic or epitympanic recess is the most superior portion of the tympanic cavity.
Epitympanic recess a small upper space of the middle ear containing the head of the malleus and the body of the incus.
Defects of the epitympanic recess pars flaccida are described as attic perforations and characterised as small or large.
Epitympanum coincides with the attic epitympanic recess.
Posteriorly the epitympanum is in direct continuity with the mastoid antrum via the aditus ad antrum and thence the mastoid air cells.
The tegmen tympani represents only the petrous part of the roof.
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