The tegmen tympani also known as the tegmental wall or roof of the tympanic cavity is a thin plate of the petrous part of the temporal bone that separates the intracranial compartment and middle ear.
Roof of tympanic wall.
The tegmental wall or roof paries tegmentalis is formed by a thin plate of bone the tegmen tympani which separates the cranial and tympanic cavities.
Jugular wall floor is formed by a bone that separates the middle ear from the internal jugular vein.
The borders forming the walls of the tympanic cavity are as following.
Facing the inner ear the medial wall or labyrinthic wall labyrinthine wall is vertical and has the oval window and.
It is situated on the anterior surface of the petrous portion of the temporal bone close to its angle of junction with the squama temporalis.
Tympanic cavity middle ear is bounded by the following six walls.
Formed by jugular fossa which separates middle ear from internal jugular vein.
The roof of the cavity also called the tegmental wall tegmental roof or tegmentum tympani is formed by a thin plate of bone the tegmen tympani which separates the cranial and tympanic cavities.
The tympanic cavity is bounded by.
The roof of the.
Facing the outer ear the lateral wall or membranous wall is formed mainly by the tympanic membrane partly by the.
Membranous wall lateral wall is formed mostly by the tympanic membrane and the bony wall of the epitympanic recess.