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It was at the point after the nerve passes through the inner ear and enters the temporal bone, on its way to the muscles of the face.

Since the thickness of the blade is just .03 inches, less material would be lost when cutting into temporal bone — a part of the skull encasing the inner ear and balance organs.

Some of the vibrations passed through the wood, through his jaw, through his temporal bone, and into his cochlea, bypassing his eardrum and middle ear.

As an example, many researchers focus their sampling effort on the petrous bone, the hard portion of the temporal bone at the base of the skull, which houses the intricate structures of the inner ear.

The impact left him with a fractured temporal bone, bleeding on his brain and a concussion, his family wrote on a GoFundMe page.