oval window

The oval opening on the medial wall of the tympanic cavity leading into the vestibule, close to the foot of the stapes. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the oval window is

The oval opening on the medial wall of the tympanic cavity leading into the vestibule, close to the foot of the stapes. The atlas records it as a bone at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the oval window is

It sits in the head, within the skeletal system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the oval window connects to

The atlas records 4 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of petrous part of temporal bone.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the oval window. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as oval window of petrous part of temporal bone, fenestra ovalis, fenestra vestibuli and vestibular window. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0002501, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: petrous part of temporal bone.
A kind of: foramen of skull and orifice of skull.
Attaches to: annular ligament of stapes.

Questions

Where is the oval window?

What does the oval window connect to?

Part of: petrous part of temporal bone.

Is the oval window the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.