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Definition of Auditory meatus

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Auditory Meatus

Literary usage of Auditory meatus

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.) (1882)
"external auditory meatus is quite short, and enters the pharynx below the position of the middle ear, though communicating freely with it. ..."

2. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"In all the skulls of the large lop-eared rabbits, the bony auditory meatus is conspicuously larger than in the wild rabbit. In a skull 4'3 inches in length, ..."

3. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1908)
"Ulcerative Tuberculosis of the External auditory meatus. OSTINO, G. (Florence). A Case of Sarcoma of the External auditory meatus. LUNGHINI, O. (Siena). ..."

4. Physical Anthropology of the Lenape Or Delawares, and of the Eastern Indians by Aleš Hrdlička (1916)
"62 Floor of auditory meatus.—Among the Indians, and particularly in the young, there are frequently found more or less pronounced defects or dehiscences ..."

5. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1897)
"The pars intermedia is placed between the facial and auditory nerves in the internal auditory meatus ; a few of its fibres frequently pass into the auditory ..."

6. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1885)
"IN this paper I propose to give the results obtained from a study of a series of frozen sections of the external auditory meatus in the child, ..."

7. Diseases of the Ear by Philip Davie Kerrison (1913)
"OBSTRUCTIVE CONDITIONS OF THE EXTERNAL auditory meatus. Foreign Bodies in the Meatus.—There is hardly a limit to the variety of foreign substances which may ..."

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