. Diseases of the ear : a text-book for practitioners and students of medicine. canal. The stapeslies obliquely in the oval niche, being nearer to the inferiorand posterior walls of the fossa than to the anterior and supe-rior. Since the posterior wall of the niche is almost vertical,the corresponding stapedial crus lies close to it, and adhesionsbetween this wall and the posterior limb of the ossicle are offrequent occurrence. The ossicular chain is suspended in the tympanic cavityby a series of ligaments which bind the individual membersof the chain to each other and to the walls of the tymp
. Diseases of the ear : a text-book for practitioners and students of medicine. canal. The stapeslies obliquely in the oval niche, being nearer to the inferiorand posterior walls of the fossa than to the anterior and supe-rior. Since the posterior wall of the niche is almost vertical,the corresponding stapedial crus lies close to it, and adhesionsbetween this wall and the posterior limb of the ossicle are offrequent occurrence. The ossicular chain is suspended in the tympanic cavityby a series of ligaments which bind the individual membersof the chain to each other and to the walls of the tympanum. Ligaments of the Malleus (Fig. 15).—These are four innumber : the anterior, external, posterior, and superior or sus-pensory ligament. l8 THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE EAR. The anterior ligament is the strongest of these. It arisesfrom the spina tympanica major and from the walls of theGlaserian fissure, some of the fibers traversing the length ofthe fissure and taking their origin from the spine of the sphe- Mastoid .<f6&-.«^^ External ligament,
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