Tensor tympani muscle
The tensor tympani is supplied by the tensor tympani nerve, a branch of the mandibular branch of the trigeminal nerve. As the ... The tensor tympani muscle develops from mesodermal tissue in the 1st pharyngeal arch. The tensor tympani acts to dampen the ... and is called tonic tensor tympani syndrome (TTTS). In some people with hyperacusis, the tensor tympani muscle can contract ... the tensor tympani and the stapedial muscle. However, the stapedial muscle is innervated by the facial nerve while the tensor ...
Tonic tensor tympani syndrome
... is a disease of the tensor tympani muscle, described by Klochoff et al in 1971. It involves a ... 1, 1971 Westcott M, Sanchez TG, Diges I, Saba C, Dineen R, McNeill C, Chiam A, O'Keefe M, Sharples T. Tonic tensor tympani ... Klochoff, I. and Westerberg, C.E. The tensor tympani muscle and tension headache. Proceedings, Annual Meeting of Scandinavian ... Klockhoff I. Impedance fluctuation and a Tensor Tympani Syndrome. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on ...
Eustachian tube
Tensor tympani (innervated by the mandibular nerve of CN V) Tensor veli palatini (innervated by the mandibular nerve of CN V) ... Keidar, E.; Kwartowitz, G. (January 2020). "Tensor Tympani Syndrome". PMID 30085597. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires , ... The right membrana tympani with the hammer and the chorda tympani, viewed from within, from behind, and from above Under normal ... The tube is opened during swallowing by contraction of the tensor veli palatini and levator veli palatini, muscles of the soft ...
Carnegie stages
Tensor tympani and stapedius present. Ectoderm: sensory placodes, nasal pits moved ventrally, fourth ventricle of brain ...
Myoclonus
These muscles may include the tensor tympani and stapedius muscles. It can involve the muscles surrounding the Eustachian tube ... which include the tensor veli palatini, levator veli palatini, and salpingopharyngeus. Those affected describe it as a thumping ...
Petrous part of the temporal bone
The upper one (semicanalis m. tensoris tympani) transmits the tensor tympani. the lower one (semicanalis tubae auditivae) forms ... and is known as the tegmen tympani a shallow groove, sometimes double, leading lateralward and backward to an oblique opening, ...
Ear
Two small muscles, the tensor tympani and stapedius, also help modulate noise. The two muscles reflexively contract to dampen ... As the cochlear duct's mesenchyme begins to differentiate, three cavities are formed: the scala vestibuli, the scala tympani ... Both the scala vestibuli and the scala tympani contain an extracellular fluid called perilymph. The scala media contains ...
Medial pterygoid nerve
... tensor tympani muscle, and tensor veli palatini muscle (via the nerve to tensor veli palatini). The tensor veli palati muscle ... to reach and innervate the tensor tympani muscle, and tensor veli palatini muscle. The medial pterygoid nerve supplies the ... and the tensor tympani muscle. The medial pterygoid nerve is a slender branch of the mandibular nerve (CN V3) (itself a branch ... It is a branch of the mandibular nerve (CN V3). It supplies the medial pterygoid muscle, the tensor veli palatini muscle, ...
Acoustic reflex
Tensor tympani Otoacoustic emission Equal-loudness contours Audiometry Hyperacusis Stapedius muscle Tympanometry Davies, R. A ... However, in humans, the acoustic reflex only involves the contraction of the stapedius muscle, not the tensor tympani. The ... When presented with an intense sound stimulus, the stapedius and tensor tympani muscles of the ossicles contract. The stapedius ... tonic tensor tympani syndrome -TTTS). The pathway involved in the acoustic reflex is complex and can involve the ossicular ...
Skeletal muscle
Some individuals can voluntarily produce this rumbling sound by contracting the tensor tympani muscle of the middle ear. The ... and tensor gives tension to; fixator muscles serve to fix a joint in a given position by stabilizing the prime mover whilst ...
Tensor veli palatini muscle
At the muscle's origin, some of its muscle fibres may be continuous with those of the tensor tympani muscle. Inferiorly, the ... The tensor veli palatini muscle (tensor palati or tensor muscle of the velum palatinum) is a thin, triangular muscle of the ... The tensor veli palatini muscle is thin and triangular in shape. It arises from the scaphoid fossa of the pterygoid process of ... The tensor veli palatini tenses the soft palate and by doing so, assists the levator veli palatini in elevating the palate to ...
Acoustic shock
It has been suggested that the tensor tympani is involved in causing the disorder (see tonic tensor tympani syndrome). In ...
Mesencephalic nucleus of trigeminal nerve
... and tensor tympani. Clinically, because of its reflex function, the mesencephalic nucleus can be tested with the jaw jerk ... The trigeminal motor nucleus innervates the muscles of mastication, mylohyoid, anterior belly of digastric, tensor veli ...
Yawn
The tensor tympani muscle in the middle ear contracts, which creates a rumbling noise perceived as coming from within the head ...
Trigeminal nerve
... the anterior belly of the digastric and the tensor tympani. With the exception of the tensor tympani, all these muscles are ... Its motor function activates the muscles of mastication, the tensor tympani, tensor veli palatini, mylohyoid and the anterior ... Although it does not carry taste sensation (the chorda tympani is responsible for taste), one of its branches-the lingual nerve ... The other four muscles are the tensor veli palatini, the mylohyoid, ...
Infratemporal fossa
... and tensor tympani muscle. The mandibular nerve also gives off many sensory branches, including: meningeal nerve buccal nerve ... It also gives branches to mylohyoid muscle, the anterior belly of digastric muscle, the tensor veli palatini muscle, ... the chorda tympani nerve, and the otic ganglion. The mandibular nerve, the third branch of the trigeminal nerve (CN V3), also ...
Otic ganglion
The motor fibers supplying the medial pterygoid and the tensor veli palatini and the tensor tympani pass through the ganglion ... and the origin of the tensor veli palatini; posteriorly, with the middle meningeal artery. It surrounds the origin of the nerve ...
Pharyngeal arch
... tensor tympani, and tensor veli palatini. All of the pharyngeal muscles of the second pharyngeal arch are innervated by the ... anterior belly tensor veli palatini muscle tensor tympani muscle Other Mucous membrane and glands of the anterior two thirds of ... The mandibular nerve is the post-trematic nerve of the first arch and chorda tympani (branch of facial nerve) is the pre- ... These muscles include all the muscles of the palate (exception of the tensor veli palatini which is innervated by the ...
List of reflexes
Acoustic reflex or attenuation reflex - contraction of the stapedius and tensor tympani muscles in the middle ear in response ...
Middle meningeal artery
A superior tympanic artery runs in the canal of the tensor tympani muscle, and supplies this muscle and the lining of the canal ...
White-tailed mole
They lack a tensor tympani muscle, possess complete bullae, and are extensions of the middle ear cavity that pneumatize the ...
Hearing
Also located in the middle ear are the stapedius muscle and tensor tympani muscle, which protect the hearing mechanism through ...
Tympanic cavity
At the upper part of the anterior wall are the orifice of the semicanal for the Tensor tympani muscle and the tympanic orifice ... and forward to cover in the semicanal for the tensor tympani muscle. Its lateral edge corresponds with the remains of the ... The Atticus is the part of the tegmentum tympani where the stapes and incus are attached. The floor of the cavity (also called ... The roof of the cavity (also called the tegmental wall, tegmental roof or tegmentum tympani) is formed by a thin plate of bone ...
Hyperacusis
Bell's palsy can trigger hyperacusis if the associated flaccid paralysis affects the tensor tympani, and stapedius, two small ... Tay-Sachs disease Temporomandibular joint disorder Tinnitus Tonic tensor tympani syndrome Trigeminal neuralgia Visual snow ...
Ossicles
... the tensor tympani and the stapedius). It is believed that these muscles can contract to dampen the vibration of the ossicles, ...
Superior tympanic artery
On entering the cranium it runs in the canal for the tensor tympani muscle and supplies this muscle and the lining membrane of ...
Stapedius muscle
Hearing Middle ear Ossicles Tensor tympani - the other major muscle in the middle ear Stapes - the other bone to which the ...
Acamprosate
... and inner ear pressure during alcohol use due to spasms of the tensor tympani muscle.[medical citation needed] In addition, ...
Face and neck development of the human embryo
... tensor palati, and tensor tympani. This arch originates maxillar and mandibular prominences, part of the temporal bone and ...
Dynamic range
... the tensor tympani, stapedius muscle, and outer hair cells all act as mechanical dynamic range compressors to adjust the ...