Keywords: Gray911.png Summary with Anatomic Orientation This image taken from Gray's Anatomy is a view of the right-sided middle ear space with the external ear canal eardrum tympanic membrane and hearing bones ossicles removed The observer is looking at the medial wall of the middle ear as seen from a lateral viewpoint The facial nerve is seen to pass horizontally in a path superior to the middle ear and then turn in an inferior direction and then pass vertically posterior to the middle ear The Eustachian tube extends anteriorly and is directed inferiorly as its path towards the throat nasopharynx extends further from the middle ear The jugular fossa is inferior to the middle ear space Other fields 1 Information field Ucfirst Plate 911 before 1858 Henry Gray Anatomy of the Human Body See Book section below 911 Creator Henry Vandyke Carter Book Gray's Anatomy PD-old-100-1923 Gray's Anatomy plates 0911 Sensory Neuroscience Hearing and speech Anatomical plates and drawings of the human ears Eustachian tube |