Coronal section of right temporal bone. (Mastoid cells labeled at bottom left.)
MRI showing fluid in mastoid air cells
Details
Artery
Stylomastoid artery
Identifiers
Latin
cellulae mastoideae
TA98
A15.3.02.029
TA2
646
FMA
72001
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.
The mastoidcells (also called air cells of Lenoir or mastoidcells of Lenoir) are air-filled cavities within the mastoid process 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...
with the mastoidcells and anteriorly with the epitympanic recess of the middle ear via the aditus to mastoid antrum (entrance to the mastoid antrum)....
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...
antrum are lined by mucosa which is continuous with that lining the mastoidcells and tympanic cavity. The medial wall of the aditus features a ridge...
foramen ovale to innervate the meninges of this fossa as well as the mastoid air cells. It divides into two branches - anterior and posterior - which accompany...
electrochemical cell Using cell phones on aircraft; see mobile phones on aircraft Mastoidcells, also known as mastoid air cells or air cells, spaces in a...
pterosaurs. Pneumatic spaces include the paranasal sinuses and some of the mastoidcells. Postcranial pneumaticity is found largely in certain archosaur groups...
stylomastoid foramen and supplies the tympanic cavity, the tympanic antrum and mastoidcells, and the semicircular canals. It is a branch of the posterior auricular...
and cochlea. He was the first to point out the connection between the mastoidcells and the middle ear. His description of the lacrimal ducts in the eye...
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...
potassium and calcium ions to enter the hair cell from the endolymph that bathes its apical end. When the hair cells are deflected toward the kinocilium, depolarization...
The abnormal plasma cells produce abnormal antibodies, which can cause kidney problems and overly thick blood. The plasma cells can also form a mass...
which enters the skull through the mastoid foramen and supplies the dura mater, the diploë, and the mastoidcells; this latter branch sometimes arises...
human skull demonstrate sexual dimorphism, such as the median nuchal line, mastoid processes, supraorbital margin, supraorbital ridge, and the chin. Human...
function and that of its muscle. He showed the connection between the mastoidcells and the tympanic cavity, and made observations on physiologic and pathologic...
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...
consisting of keratinizing squamous epithelium in the middle ear and/or mastoid process. Cholesteatomas are not cancerous as the name may suggest, but...
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...
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...
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...
zygomatic bone. Posteroinferior to the squamous is the mastoid part. Fused with the squamous and mastoid parts and between the sphenoid and occipital bones...
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...
dedicated to ear disorders. Schwartze's operation—the opening of the mastoidcells with a hammer and chisel in disease of the middle ear. Dorland's Medical...
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...