Muscles of auditory ossicles

Muscles of auditory ossicles
Muscles of auditory ossicles
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The right membrana tympani with the hammer and the chorda tympani, viewed from within, from behind, and from above.
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The medial wall and part of the posterior and anterior walls of the right tympanic cavity, lateral view.
Latin musculi ossiculorum auditus; musculi ossiculorum auditoriorum
Gray's subject #230 1046
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Artery
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The muscles of auditory ossicles serve to modulate the motion of the ossicles.

They include the Stapedius muscle and Tensor tympani muscle.


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