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Diagrammatic representation of the middle ear showing the distribution of the ciliated cells within the epitympanum, mesotympanum, and hypotympanum, which form the mucociliary transport pathways from the middle ear to the eustachian tube.
Adapted from Lim (1979) and Lim et al. (2000).
