"Vestibular Aqueduct" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A small bony canal linking the vestibule of the inner ear to the posterior part of the internal surface of the petrous TEMPORAL BONE. It transmits the endolymphatic duct and two small blood vessels.
| Descriptor ID |
D014723
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A09.246.631.909.957
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| Concept/Terms |
Vestibular Aqueduct- Vestibular Aqueduct
- Aqueduct, Vestibular
- Aqueducts, Vestibular
- Vestibular Aqueducts
- Aqueduct of Vestibule
- Vestibule Aqueduct
- Vestibule Aqueducts
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| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Vestibular Aqueduct" by people in Profiles.
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Choi BY, Stewart AK, Madeo AC, Pryor SP, Lenhard S, Kittles R, Eisenman D, Kim HJ, Niparko J, Thomsen J, Arnos KS, Nance WE, King KA, Zalewski CK, Brewer CC, Shawker T, Reynolds JC, Butman JA, Karniski LP, Alper SL, Griffith AJ. Hypo-functional SLC26A4 variants associated with nonsyndromic hearing loss and enlargement of the vestibular aqueduct: genotype-phenotype correlation or coincidental polymorphisms? Hum Mutat. 2009 Apr; 30(4):599-608.