| Jugular wall of tympanic cavity | |
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| Coronal section of right temporal bone. | |
| The medial wall and part of the posterior and anterior walls of the right tympanic cavity, lateral view. (Jugular wall labeled at bottom center.) | |
| Latin | paries jugularis cavi tympani |
| Gray's | subject #230 1038 |
The Jugular Wall or Floor is narrow, and consists of a thin plate of bone (fundus tympani) which separates the tympanic cavity from the jugular fossa. It presents, near the labyrinthic wall, a small aperture for the passage of the tympanic branch of the glossopharyngeal nerve.
This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.
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