Sulcus for auditory tube

Bone: Sulcus for auditory tube
Latin s. tubae auditoriae, s. tubae auditivae
Gray's subject #35 150

The lateral half of the great wing articulates, by means of a synchondrosis, with the petrous portion of the temporal, and between the two bones on the under surface of the skull, is a furrow, the sulcus tubæ, for the lodgement of the cartilaginous part of the auditory tube.

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