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facial canal

n :  a passage in the petrous part of the temporal bone that extends from the internal auditory meatus to the stylomastoid foramen and transmits various branches of the facial nerve - called also aqueduct of Fallopius , fallopian aqueduct , fallopian canal  .
 
 

 
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