Assertion: middle ear | /r/CapableOf | connect with the mastoid cavity
Facets:
value: through a recess
type: MANNER
value: backward
type: MANNER
value: in the opposite direction
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: The tympanic cavity, however, is not an isolated, air‐filled chamber housed within the temporal bone, but communicates anteriorly with the epipharynx via the auditory (Eustachian) tube, and in the opposite direction connects backward with the mastoid cavity through a recess, the tympanic antrum.