Excerpt from The Anatomy of the Human Ear, Illustrated by a Series of Engravings, of the Natural Size: With a Treatise on the Diseases of That Organ, the Causes of Deafness, and Their Proper Treatment

The Membrana Tympani is pellucid and of and elliptical figure. Its major ax1s is placed neither vertically nor horizontally, but obliquely. It is fixed in the elliptical groove, at z, the termination of the Meatus Externus, except in the posterior and su perior part, where the groove is deficient, There it is attached to a rough surface of the bone.

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