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 MP:0004480 ]

Synonyms: round window of petrous part of temporal bone round window

This is just here as a test because I lose it

Term information

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Subsets

uberon_slim, pheno_slim

depicted by

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

has related synonym

cochlear window

fenestra cochleae

fenestra rotunda

id

UBERON:0002502