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Is torus tubarius paired?

Is torus tubarius paired?

The parapharyngeal spaces are paired fatty spaces lateral to the pharyngeal mucosal space. Coronal C+ FS T1WI MR reveals the normal enhancing sheet of mucosa. Notice the torus tubarius (cartilaginous eustachian tube) & lateral pharyngeal recesses .

What is the function of torus tubarius?

The chief surgical pitfalls to avoid during adenoidectomy are trauma to the torus tubarius, which protects the opening of the Eustachian tube, and deep removal of the posterior wall of the nasopharynx, which leads to excessive bleeding.

What is responsible for elevation of torus tubarius?

On the lateral wall of the nasal part of the pharynx is the pharyngeal ostium of the auditory tube, somewhat triangular in shape, and bounded behind by a firm prominence, the torus tubarius (cushion), caused by the medial end of the cartilage of the tube which elevates the mucous membrane.

What does torus mean in Latin?

Borrowed from Latin torus (“a round, swelling, elevation, protuberance”).

What is the torus Tubarius?

Torus tubarius (plural: tori tubarii) or cushion of the auditory canal is a mucosal elevation in the lateral aspect of the nasopharynx, formed by the underlying pharyngeal end of the cartilaginous portion of the Eustachian tube. The opening of the Eustachian tube is anterior to the torus tobarius.

What attaches to torus tubarius?

The opening of the Eustachian tube is anterior to the torus tobarius. Immediately posterior to the torus tubarius is the fossa of Rosenmuller. From the inferior aspect of the torus tubarius, two mucosal folds extend inferiorly: anterior fold: the salpingopalatine fold, which overlies salpingopalatine muscle fibers.

What is Torus tube?

Anatomical terminology. The base of the cartilaginous portion of the Eustachian tube (auditory tube) lies directly under the mucous membrane of the nasal part of the pharynx, where it forms an elevation or cushion, the torus tubarius or torus of the auditory tube, behind the pharyngeal orifice of the tube.

What attaches to Torus Tubarius?

What opens Eustachian tube?

The eustachian tube opens upon swallowing or yawning by contraction of the tensor veli palatini muscle.

What opens eustachian tube?

What is the plural of Tori?

noun. to·​rus | \ ˈtȯr-əs \ plural tori\ ˈtȯr-​ˌī , -​ˌē \