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ENDOCERVICAL CANAL: The portion of the uterine cavity that lies within the cervix - the passage that connects the vaginal canal with the main uterine cavity (lumen). image

ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE: An airway catheter that is inserted into the trachea. image

EPIGLOTTIS: The cartilagenous structure which overhangs the larynx to prevent food entering it when swallowing. image

EPITYMPANIC RECESS: The upper portion of the tympanic membrane, above the level of the tympanic membrane. image

ERECTOR SPINEA MUSCLE: Intermediate muscles of the back that produce extention in the vertebral column. It originates from the sacrum, iliac crest, and spines of the lumbar and eleventh and twelfth thoracic vertebrae, splitting into the iliocostals, longissimus, and spinalis muscles image

ESOPHAGEAL-GASTRIC JUNCTION: See gastroesophageal junction. image

ESOPHAGUS: The musculomembraneous connection between the pahrynx to the stomach. image

ETHMOID SINUS: The paranasal sinus located within the ethmoid bone, between the orbits, below the brain, and above the nasal cavity. image

EUSTACHIAN TUBE: A hollow cartilagenous tube connecting between the tympanic (middle ear) cavity and nasopharynx that acts as the pressure adjusting channel. Yawning opens the tube to allow the ears to "pop!" when changing altitude. image

EXTERNAL ACOUSTIC (Auditory) CANAL: The opening in the external surface of the temporal bone, behind the condyle of the mandible and in front of the mastoid air cells that conducts air and sound toward the tympanic membrane. image

EXTERNAL AUDITORY MEATUS: The opening for the passage from the external ear toward the tympanic membrane. image

EXTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY: Artery which originates from the common iliac and branches into the inferior epigastric and deep circumflex iliac arteries. image

EXTERNAL ILIAC VEIN: The continuation of the femoral vein, beginning at the level of the inguinal ligament, and joining the internal iliac vein at the sacroiliac articulation to form the common iliac vein. image

EXTERNAL OBLIQUE MUSCLE: Muscles that run from the lower eight ribs at the costal cartilages to the crest of ilium and linea alba, that are responsible for flexing and rotating the torso and vertebral column. image




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Portions © 1997 J.G. Smirniotopoulos, M.D. and others.