• include: Mastoides albocostatus (Westerlund, 1896) Mastoides obeliscus Schileyko, 2007 Mastoides orloffensis (Kobelt, 1905) MolluscaBase (2018). Mastoides Westerlund...
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  • Thumbnail for Mastoid part of the temporal bone
    The mastoid part of the temporal bone is the posterior (back) part of the temporal bone, one of the bones of the skull. Its rough surface gives attachment...
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    The mastoid cells (also called air cells of Lenoir or mastoid cells of Lenoir) are air-filled cavities within the mastoid process of the temporal bone...
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    with the mastoid cells and anteriorly with the epitympanic recess of the middle ear via the aditus to mastoid antrum (entrance to the mastoid antrum)....
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    The mastoid foramen is a hole in the posterior border of the temporal bone. It transmits an emissary vein between the sigmoid sinus and the suboccipital...
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    aditus to mastoid antrum (otomastoid foramen) is a large, irregular opening upon the posterior wall of the tympanic cavity by which the mastoid antrum (situated...
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    The mastoid lymph nodes (retroauricular lymph nodes or posterior auricular glands) are a small group of lymph nodes, usually two in number, located just...
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    sternum (sterno-) and the clavicle (cleido-) and has an insertion at the mastoid process of the temporal bone of the skull. The sternocleidomastoid muscle...
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    In the lateral part of the jugular fossa of the temporal bone is the mastoid canaliculus for the entrance of the auricular branch of the vagus nerve....
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    Mastoiditis (category Diseases of middle ear and mastoid)
    inflammation of the mucosal lining of the mastoid antrum and mastoid air cell system inside the mastoid process. The mastoid process is the portion of the temporal...
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    H00–H59 Diseases of the eye and adnexa VIII H60–H95 Diseases of the ear and mastoid process IX I00–I99 Diseases of the circulatory system X J00–J99 Diseases...
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    horizontal parietomastoid suture, which unites the mastoid process of the temporal with the region of the mastoid angle of the parietal bone. The term parietotemporal...
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    occipitotemporal suture, is the cranial suture between the occipital bone and the mastoid portion of the temporal bone. It is continuous with the lambdoidal suture...
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    Battle's sign, also known as mastoid ecchymosis, is an indication of fracture of middle cranial fossa of the skull. These fractures may be associated...
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  • Thumbnail for Stylomastoid foramen
    The stylomastoid foramen is a foramen between the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone of the skull. It is the termination of the facial...
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    Skull base surgery Study of diseases of the outer ear, middle ear and mastoid, and inner ear, and surrounding structures (such as the facial nerve and...
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  • Mastoidectomy (category Diseases of the ear and mastoid process)
    A mastoidectomy is a procedure performed to remove the mastoid air cells, air bubbles in the skull, near the middle ear. This can be done as part of treatment...
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    suprameatal pit, mastoid fossa, foveola suprameatica, or Macewen's triangle, through which an instrument may be pushed into the mastoid antrum. In the adult...
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  • are several types of emissary veins including the posterior condyloid, mastoid, occipital and parietal emissary veins. There are also emissary veins passing...
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    tympanica canaliculi chordæ) is situated in the angle of junction between the mastoid and membranous wall of tympanic cavity immediately behind the tympanic...
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    Hoboken was delayed until April 2, 1916. A childhood operation on his mastoid bone left major scarring on his neck, and during adolescence he was further...
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    where three cranial bones meet: the parietal bone. the occipital bone. the mastoid portion of the temporal bone. In the adult, it lies 4 cm behind and 12...
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    suprahyoid muscle located under the jaw. Its posterior belly is attached to the mastoid notch of temporal bone, and its anterior belly is attached to the digastric...
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    Cholesteatoma (category Diseases of middle ear and mastoid)
    consisting of keratinizing squamous epithelium in the middle ear and/or mastoid process. Cholesteatomas are not cancerous as the name may suggest, but...
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    CT and MRI can be used to assess for associated complications, such as mastoid effusion, subperiosteal abscess formation, bony destruction, venous thrombosis...
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    base is fused with the internal surfaces of the squamous, tympanic, and mastoid parts. The apex, which is rough and uneven, is received into the angular...
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    zygomatic bone. Posteroinferior to the squamous is the mastoid part. Fused with the squamous and mastoid parts and between the sphenoid and occipital bones...
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    two-thirds of the superior nuchal line of the occipital bone and from the mastoid process of the temporal and ends in the epicranial aponeurosis. The occipitalis...
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  • Misophonia (category Diseases of the ear and mastoid process)
    Misophonia (or selective sound sensitivity syndrome, sound-rage) is a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or their associated stimuli, or...
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  • Tinnitus (category Diseases of the ear and mastoid process)
    Tinnitus is a variety of sound that is heard when no corresponding external sound is present. Nearly everyone experiences faint "normal tinnitus" in a...
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