mastoid cells

He was the first to point out the connection between the mastoid cells and the middle ear.

The posterior branch also supplies the mucous lining of the mastoid cells.

Pneumatic spaces include the paranasal sinuses and some of the mastoid cells.

It is called the tympanic antrum, and must be distinguished from the mastoid cells, though it communicates with them.

When the mastoid cells become infected or inflamed, often as a result of an unresolved middle ear infection (otitis media), mastoiditis can develop.

Schwartze's operation-the opening of the mastoid cells with a hammer and chisel in disease of the middle ear.

Schuller's view is a lateral radiographic view of skull principally used for viewing mastoid cells.

He showed the connection between the mastoid cells and the tympanic cavity, and made observations on physiologic and pathologic processes of the ear.

Like the mastoid cells it is filled with air and lined by a prolongation of the mucous membrane of the tympanic cavity, with which it communicates.

The stylomastoid artery enters the stylomastoid foramen and supplies the tympanic cavity, the tympanic antrum and mastoid cells, and the semicircular canals.

A section of the mastoid process shows it to be hollowed out into a number of spaces, the mastoid cells, which exhibit the greatest possible variety as to their size and number.