eminentia

• “The pyramidal eminence (eminentia pyramidalis; pyramid) is situated immediately behind the fenestra vestibuli, and in front of the vertical portion of the facial canal; it is hollow, and contains the Stapedius muscle; its summit projects forward toward the fenestra vestibuli, and is pierced by a small aperture which transmits the tendon of the muscle.”

  X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 2. The Middle Ear or Tympanic Cavity

• “It consists of scattered fibers, partly tendinous and partly muscular, extending from the eminentia conchæ to the prominence corresponding with the scapha.”

  X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 1. The External Ear

• “The cranial aspect of the cartilage exhibits a transverse furrow, the sulcus antihelicis transversus, which corresponds with the inferior crus of the antihelix and separates the eminentia conchæ from the eminentia triangularis.”

  X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 1. The External Ear

• “The cranial surface of the auricula presents elevations which correspond to the depressions on its lateral surface and after which they are named, e. g., eminentia conchæ, eminentia triangularis, etc.”

  X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 1. The External Ear

• “The eminentia conchæ is crossed by a vertical ridge (ponticulus), which gives attachment to the Auricularis posterior muscle.”

  X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 1. The External Ear

• “The anterior root, continuous with the lower border, is short but broad and strong; it is directed medialward and ends in a rounded eminence, the articular tubercle (eminentia articularis).”

  II. Osteology. 5a. 4. The Temporal Bone

• “One (proötic) appears in the neighborhood of the eminentia arcuata, spreads in front and above the internal acoustic meatus and extends to the apex of the bone; it forms part of the cochlea, vestibule, superior semicircular canal, and medial wall of the tympanic cavity.”

  II. Osteology. 5a. 4. The Temporal Bone

• “Retzius has named it the eminentia saccularis, and regards it as a representative of the saccus vasculosus found in this situation in some of the lower vertebrates.”

  IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon

• “The collateral eminence (eminentia collateralis) (Fig. 740) is an elongated swelling lying lateral to and parallel with the hippocampus.”

  IX. Neurology. 4c. The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon

• “AUBERY, Histoire générale des cardinaux (Paris, 1642); COHELLIUS, Notitia cardinalatus in qua nedum de S.R. E. cardinalium origine dignitate pr eminentia et privilegiis sed de pr cipuis romana aulae officialibus pertractatur (Rome, 1653);”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

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