Petrotympanic fissure

Petrotympanic fissure

Infobox Bone
Name = Petrotympanic fissure
Latin = f. petrotympanica
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Caption = Left temporal bone. Outer surface. (Petrotympanic fissure is labeled at left, fourth from top.)


Caption2 = The right membrana tympani with the hammer and the chorda tympani, viewed from within, from behind, and from above. (Glaserian fissure labeled at center left.)
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The petrotympanic fissure is a fissure in the temporal bone [EMedicineDictionary|Petrotympanic+fissure] that runs from the temporomandibular joint to the tympanic cavity.cite journal |author=Eckerdal O |title=The petrotympanic fissure: a link connecting the tympanic cavity and the temporomandibular joint |journal=Cranio |volume=9 |issue=1 |pages=15–22 |year=1991 |pmid=1843474 |doi=]

The mandibular fossa is bounded, in front, by the articular tubercle; behind, by the tympanic part of the bone, which separates it from the external acoustic meatus; it is divided into two parts by a narrow slit, the petrotympanic fissure.

It opens just above and in front of the ring of bone into which the tympanic membrane is inserted; in this situation it is a mere slit about 2 mm. in length. It lodges the anterior process and anterior ligament of the malleus, and gives passage to the anterior tympanic branch of the internal maxillary artery.

Eponym

It is also known as the "Glaserian fissure", after Johann Glaser.cite web |url=http://www.medcyclopaedia.com/library/topics/volume_vi_2/g/glaserian_fissure.aspx |title=Glaserian fissure |accessdate=2008-03-07 |format= |work=Medcyclopaedia]

ee also

* Chorda tympani

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