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Fig. 1 to 6. Reconstructions of the stapes - superior and medial views

X 21. The arrows in these and the next group of figures pass through the foramens.

In these and in the succeeding figures ant. crus. indicates anterior crus of stapes; cart. or cartil., cartilage; far. c., facial canal ; fen. cart, fenestral cartilage; fiss. a. f., fissula ante fenestram; fiss. cart, fissular cartilage; foss. p. f., fossula post fenestram; hav. sp., haversian spaces; mm. membn, mucous membrane; obt. membr., obturator membrane; perich., perichondrium; post. crus, posterior crus ; pryr, pyramid; sc. tymp, scala tympani; semis. t. t. m., semicanal for tensor tympani muscle; st. lig., stapedial ligament; t. c. or tymp. cavity, tympanic cavity; t. o. foss., tympanic orifice of fossula; v. or vest, vestibule; vestib. orif. or v. o. fiss, vestibular orifice of fissula, and 'v. o. foss., vestibular orifice of fossula.

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Reference

Anson BJ. Karabin JE. and Martin J. Stapes, fissula ante fenestram and associated structures in man: II. From Fetus at Term to Adult of Seventy (1938) Arch. Otolaryng. 28: 676-697.