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| Â | Temporal bone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The base is fused with the internal surfaces of the squama and mastoid portion. | | | Its upper border fuses laterally with the back of the postglenoid process, while medially it bounds the petrotympanic fissure. | | | Its inner end is closed, in the recent state, by the tympanic membrane; the upper limit of its outer orifice is formed by the posterior root of the zygomatic process, immediately below which there is sometimes seen a small spine, the suprameatal spine, situated at the upper and posterior part of the orifice. |
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| Â | eMedicine - Middle Ear, Mastoiditis : Article by PP Devan, MBBS, MS |
| | This is the only mastoid condition treated purely by medical management. | | | With the high incidence of invasive resistant strains in mastoiditis, initial therapy of intravenous vancomycin and ceftriaxone is most appropriate until results of the culture and sensitivity studies are available. | | | Microbiologic diagnosis is important to guide specific therapy. |
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| | This measurement is then transferred to the Lateral film for the correct distance and relationship between the mastoid process, occipital condyle and atlas transverse process. | | | These structures must be properly related to each other for correct relationship on the lateral film. | | | This information is necessary if the doctor is to properly contact and correct the ASC. |
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| Â | The mechanical impedance of the human mastoid process |
| | At the instance of the Electro-Acoustics Committee of the Medical Research Council, the National Physical Laboratory has undertaken a comprehensive series of measurements of the driving-point impedance of the mastoid process of the head on twenty normal subjects for a variety of operating conditions. | | | The mechanical impedance of the human mastoid process | | | The main object of the work was to develop objective procedures for assessing the response characteristics of bone-conduction receivers, by providing data for the design of an "artificial mastoid" having a driving-point impedance simulating the average human mastoid. |
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| | One process may, on some platforms, consist of many threads. | | | [v] subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition ; " process cheese "; " process hair "; " treat the water so it can be drunk "; " treat the lawn with chemicals " ; " treat an oil spill " | | | appendage, cognitive operation, cognitive process, litigate, march, mental process, operation, outgrowth, procedure, serve, sue, summons, swear out, treat, unconscious process, work, work on |
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| Â | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Mastoid Process |
| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Mastoid Process | | | Mastoid Process, conical prominence of the temporal bone of the human skull, situated behind the ear. | | | Skull : anatomy of skull: mastoid process – Mastoid |
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| | study of the physical and chemical processes of the body, see Physiology ; Human Growth ; Puberty ; Infancy ; Adolescence ; Menstruation |
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| Â | Bambooweb: Mastoid process |
| | 3:...the clavicle (''cleido-''), and the mastoid process of the temporal bone of the skull. | | | attempt to affect the brain via chemical processes. | | | 1:...r the skin over parotid gland and mastoid process, and both surfaces of the outer ear. |
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| Â | Face Anatomy (Human Face Anatomy) - Medical Encyclopedia |
| | The facial or seventh nerve emerges from the skull at the stylomastoid foramen just in front of the root of the mastoid process; in the parotid gland it forms a network called the pes anserinus, after which it divides into six branches which radiate over the face to supply the muscles of expression. | | | The line of this duct may be marked out by joining the lower margin of the tragus to a point midway between the lower limit of the nose and the mouth. | | | The parotid gland lies between the ramus of the jaw and the mastoid process; anteriorly it overlaps the masseter to form the socia parotidis, and just below this its duct, the duct of Stensen, runs forward to pierce the buccinator and open into the mouth opposite the second upper molar tooth. |
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| | The mastoid process is important to students of fossil... | | | Mastoid itis, which primarily affects children, usually results from an infection of the middle ear (otitis... | | | Inflammation of the mastoid process, a bony projection just behind... |
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| | 2 : of, relating to, or occurring in the region of the mastoid process | | | 1 : being the process of the temporal bone behind the ear; also : being any of several bony elements that occupy a similar position in the skull of lower vertebrates | | | For More Information on "mastoid" go to Britannica.com |
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