Aqueduct of cochlea

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Bone: Aqueduct of cochlea
Left temporal bone. Inferior surface. (Aquæductus cochleæ labeled at left, fifth from the top.)
Latin	a. cochleae
Gray's	subject #34 144
Dorlands/Elsevier	a_55/12148721

Medial to the opening for the carotid canal and close to its posterior border, in front of the jugular fossa, is a triangular depression; at the apex of this is a small opening, the aquaeductus cochleae (or cochlear aqueduct, or aqueduct of cochlea), which lodges a tubular prolongation of the dura mater establishing a communication between the perilymphatic space and the subarachnoid space, and transmits a vein from the cochlea to join the internal jugular

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Base of skull. Inferior surface.

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