| caroticotympanic canaliculi | Small openings within the carotid canal that afford passage to the tympanic cavity of branches of the internal carotid artery and carotid sympathetic plexus. Synonym: canaliculi caroticotympanici. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Thiersch's canaliculi | Minute channels in newly formed reparative tissue, permitting the circulation of nutritive fluids, precursors of new vascularization. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tympanic opening of canaliculi for chorda tympani | The small canal opening found lateral to the pyramidal eminence in the posterior wall of the middle ear cavity from which the chorda tympani nerve emerges to pass anteriorly between the ossicles accompanied by a branch of the stylomastoid artery. Synonym: apertura tympanica canaliculi chordae tympani. (05 Mar 2000) |