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Mastoid cells
Coronal section of right temporal bone. (Mastoid cells labeled at bottom left.)
MRI showing fluid in mastoid air cells
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ArteryStylomastoid artery
Identifiers
Latincellulae mastoideae
TA98A15.3.02.029
TA2646
FMA72001
Anatomical terminology
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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 of the cranium. The mastoid cells are a form of skeletal pneumaticity. Infection in these cells is called mastoiditis.

The term cells here refers to enclosed spaces, not cells as living, biological units.

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Mastoiditis

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the air cells of the skull behind the ear. Specifically, it is an inflammation of the mucosal lining of the mastoid antrum and mastoid air cell system...

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Aditus to mastoid antrum

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antrum are lined by mucosa which is continuous with that lining the mastoid cells and tympanic cavity. The medial wall of the aditus features a ridge...

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Meningeal branch of the mandibular nerve

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Air cell

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Skeletal pneumaticity

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pterosaurs. Pneumatic spaces include the paranasal sinuses and some of the mastoid cells. Postcranial pneumaticity is found largely in certain archosaur groups...

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Stylomastoid artery

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stylomastoid foramen and supplies the tympanic cavity, the tympanic antrum and mastoid cells, and the semicircular canals. It is a branch of the posterior auricular...

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Gabriele Falloppio

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and cochlea. He was the first to point out the connection between the mastoid cells and the middle ear. His description of the lacrimal ducts in the eye...

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Mastoidectomy

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A mastoidectomy is a procedure performed to remove the mastoid air cells, air bubbles in the skull, near the inner ears. This can be done as part of treatment...

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Tip link

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Auricular branch of occipital artery

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which enters the skull through the mastoid foramen and supplies the dura mater, the diploë, and the mastoid cells; this latter branch sometimes arises...

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Human skeleton

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human skull demonstrate sexual dimorphism, such as the median nuchal line, mastoid processes, supraorbital margin, supraorbital ridge, and the chin. Human...

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Antonio Maria Valsalva

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function and that of its muscle. He showed the connection between the mastoid cells and the tympanic cavity, and made observations on physiologic and pathologic...

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Epitympanic recess

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to the mastoid air cells located in the mastoid process of the temporal bone of the skull. Inflammation which has spread to the mastoid air cells is very...

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Cholesteatoma

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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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Otorhinolaryngology

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Otitis media

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ear,' is fluid accumulation that can occur in the middle ear and mastoid air cells due to negative pressure produced by dysfunction of the Eustachian...

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Posterior auricular artery

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arterial supply to the facial nerve (CN VII), tympanic cavity, mastoid air cells of the mastoid antrum, and the semicircular canals. It issues small branches...

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Temporal bone

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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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Tympanic nerve

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sensation to the middle ear, the Eustachian tube, the parotid gland, and mastoid air cells. It gives parasympathetic to supply to the parotid gland via the otic...

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Hermann Schwartze

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dedicated to ear disorders. Schwartze's operation—the opening of the mastoid cells with a hammer and chisel in disease of the middle ear. Dorland's Medical...

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Facial nerve

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(or horizontal) segment (from geniculate ganglion to pyramidal eminence) mastoid (or vertical) segment (from pyramidal eminence to stylomastoid foramen)...

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Occipital artery

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branch gives rise to the mastoid branch, which supplies the dura mater, diploe, and mastoid air cells. In other specimens, the mastoid artery is a branch of...

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