Prominence of facial canal
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Prominence of facial canal
| Prominence of facial canal | |
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| View of the inner wall of the tympanum. (Facial canal visible in upper left; promontory labeled at center.) | |
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| Coronal section of right temporal bone. (Prominence of the facial canal labeled at top, fourth from the left.) | |
| Latin | prominentia canalis facialis |
| Gray's | subject #230 1042 |
The prominence of the facial canal (prominence of aqueduct of Fallopius) indicates the position of the bony canal in which the facial nerve is contained; this canal traverses the labyrinthic wall of the tympanic cavity above the fenestra vestibuli, and behind that opening curves nearly vertically downward along the mastoid wall.
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