The stapes branches are unpaired formations of the bones of the skull, and serve to attach the internal tympanic muscle, which closes the entrance to the tympanic cavity - the stapes. Branching from the foramen magnum, they gradually diverge in different directions, bending along the way forward to the stapes. Formed after the 8 branches of the stapes diverge from each other, it represents the medullary triangle of the skull. There are right and left stapedial branches, which are divided into a central superior branch, an external superficial branch and a naru