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The images were constructed using transparency to show the relationships between the bones. The tympanic bone is colored cyan, and the ossicles are colored as follows: malleus = yellow, incus = magenta, stapes = green. This view is a particularly good vantage point from which to view the structures that receive the dorsal branch of the mandibular fat body.
