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EAR: OBSERVATION OF AN ENLARGED, DISMANTABLE ANATOMICAL MODEL OF THE MIDDLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY
Author(s) -
Le Floch-Prigent Patrice Pierre,
BARBET PATRICK J.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.26.1_supplement.lb14
Subject(s) - anatomy , ossicles , middle ear , cochlea , internal carotid artery , vestibular system , medicine , audiology , surgery
The aim of the study was to appreciate the anatomical veracity of a teaching model of ear. The model measured 47cm in length (encumbrancy), 35cm of total length and 50cm high. It was made in plaster and brightly colored. It presented a dismantable external ear and a dismantable upper pat of the petrous pyramid. It could be separated in two parts in the frontal plane. The model was studied on the morphological point of view and photographed in its whole and for each of its five components after their separation. The sample laid on a squared, wooden basis (48cm). A label was sticken “Sciences et Pédagogie, 35 rue des petits champs, Paris 1er”. The anatomy of each component was well respected especially the one of the tympanic membrane and of the ear's ossicles. The cochleo‐vestibular apparatus was dismountable and the upper part of the cochlea also. The representation of the nerves was good but the vascular representations were limited to the internal carotid artery and to the intra‐cranial, middle meningeal artery.