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internal auditory canal

noun

Medical Definition of INTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL

:  a short auditory canal in the petrous portion of the temporal bone through which pass the facial and auditory nerves and the nervus intermedius—called also internal acoustic meatus, internal auditory meatus

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