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round window of inner ear

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002502

the opening on the medial wall of the middle ear leading into the cochlea, closed in life by the secondary tympanic membrane; serves to regulate fluid pressure in the inner ear [ https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0-683-40008-8 ]

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round window of inner ear

Synonyms

round window
round window of petrous part of temporal bone

database cross reference

Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

latin term

fenestra cochleae [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_window ]

latin term

fenestra rotunda [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_window ]

depicted by

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Gray911.png

has obo namespace

uberon

has related synonym

cochlear window, fenestra cochleae, fenestra rotunda

UBERON:0002502

Term relations

Subclass of:

foramen of skull
orifice of skull
part of some petrous part of temporal bone