Bone: Sulcus for auditory tube | |
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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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