Suprameatal spine
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| Bone: Suprameatal spine | |
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| Latin | s. suprameatica |
| Gray's | subject #34 145 |
| Dorlands / Elsevier | s_18/12749393 |
The inner end of the external acoustic meatus is closed, in the recent state, by the tympanic membrane; the upper limit of its outer orifice is formed by the posterior root of the zygomatic process, immediately below which there is sometimes seen a small spine, the suprameatal spine, situated at the upper and posterior part of the orifice.
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