If the eardrum is perforated, it follows therefore things placed into the external auditory meatus ( " ie your earhole " ) will be able to be tasted should they pass through to the mouth.
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It had a short face and a delicate premaxilla with only one or two incisors, and the lateral rim of the internal auditory meatus was lengthened towards the brain case which formed a longitudinal ridge.
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Whipmix facebow ) where the external auditory meatus is used as the posterior landmark and the'facial face bows'where the condyles on the side of the face are utilized as posterior anatomical landmarks ( e . g.
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Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson noted there were similarities in the skull between the eclectus parrot and members of the genus " Geoffroyus ", specifically in the auditory meatus and the prefrontal reaching but not joining the squamosal bones.
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Condylar fractures are deep, so it is rare to see significant swelling although, the trauma can cause fracture of the bone on the anterior aspect of the external auditory meatus so bruising or bleeding can sometimes be seen in the ear canal.
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Near the center is a large orifice, the internal acoustic opening, the size of which varies considerably; its margins are smooth and rounded, and it leads into the internal auditory meatus a short canal, about 1 cm . in length, which runs lateralward.
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The internal auditory meatus provides a passage through which the vestibulocochlear nerve, the facial nerve, and the labyrinthine artery ( an internal auditory branch of the basilar artery ) can pass from inside the skull to structures of the inner ear and face.
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They have a relatively small and slender skull, with a large external auditory meatus, narrow squamosal and mandibular processes, a minuscule stylomastoid foramen, and usually lack foramina for the external carotid artery and anterodorsal ( meaning in front and toward the back ) nasopharynx.
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Occasionally fine " ear stripes " may be present behind the opening of the auditory meatus, while dark or light speckling or streaking can occur along the flanks as well as what are called " tiger stripes " " parallel, dark, usually vertical stripes ".
