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Definition of Auditory canal
1. Noun. Either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane.
Terms within: Auricular Point, Auriculare
Generic synonyms: Meatus
Group relationships: External Ear, Outer Ear
Medical Definition of Auditory canal
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)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auditory Canal
Literary usage of Auditory canal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"The next step is the breaking down of the posterior and upper wall of the external
auditory canal, thus making the canal-like passage through the cortex ..."
2. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The auditory canal (meatus auditorius externus) extends from the bottom of the
concha to ... The auditory canal is formed partly by cartilage and membrane, ..."
3. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Galvanic Nystagmus One electrode is placed in front of the tragus or in the
external auditory canal of the ear to be examined, the other at an indifferent ..."
4. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1899)
"Congenital and Acquired Anomalies and Absence of the External auditory canal—A.
HARTMANN (Berlin). Two cases were described. One was that of a newborn child ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"M" The Relation between the Temperature Changes in the External auditory canal
and the Circulation of the Brain. r/lu(,-r's A r.-/iir. ..."
6. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, William Sharpey, John Cleland, Allen Thomson (1867)
"... is a narrow irregular cavity in the substance of the temporal bone, placed
between the inner end of the external auditory canal and the labyrinth. ..."
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