internal auditory canal

internal auditory canal
internal auditory canal n a short auditory canal in the petrous portion of the temporal bone through which pass the facial and auditory nerves and the nervus intermedius called also internal acoustic meatus, internal auditory meatus

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meatus acusticus internus.

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