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Definition of Acoustic meatus

1. Noun. Either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane.

Medical Definition of Acoustic meatus

1. The passage leading inward through the tympanic portion of the temporal bone, from the auricle to the tympanic membrane; it consists of a bony (inner) portion and a fibrocartilaginous (outer) portion, the cartilaginous external acoustic meatus. Synonym: meatus acusticus externus, acoustic meatus, antrum auris, auditory canal, external auditory meatus. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Acoustic meatus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"THE LYMPH GLANDS OF THE HEAD of the auricula or pinna, and the back of the external acoustic meatus; their efferents pass to the superior deep cervical ..."

2. A Laboratory Manual of Human Anatomy by Lewellys Franklin Barker, Dean De Witt Lewis, Daniel Graisberry Revell (1904)
"Examine the external acoustic, meatus (meatus acusticus externus) thus opened, ... (d) Cartilage of acoustic meatus (cartílago meatus acustici). ..."

3. Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1921)
"It begins at the bottom of the internal acoustic meatus, and opens on the exterior of the skull at the stylo-mastoid foramen. Between its commencement and ..."

4. Anatomy of the Human Body by Henry Gray, Warren Harmon Lewis (1918)
"On the tragus and antitragus the hairs are strong and numerous. The skin of the auricula is continuous with that lining the external acoustic meatus. ..."

5. Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy by Daniel John Cunningham (1914)
"the internal acoustic meatus, and opens on the exterior of the skull at the stylo-mastoid foramen. Between its commencement and termination it pursues a ..."

6. Morris's Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise by English and by Henry Morris, James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"THE EXTERNAL acoustic meatus The external acoustic (auditory) meatus extends medially and somewhat ven- trally from the concha to the tympanic membrane (fig ..."

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