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musculotubal canal (medicine)


musculotubal canal


A canal beginning at the anterior border of the petrous portion of the temporal bone near its junction with the squamous portion, and passing to the tympanic cavity; it is divided by the cochleariform process into two saemicanals: one for the auditory (eustachian) tube, the other for the tensor tympani muscle.

Synonym: canalis musculotubarius.