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Auditory meatus

noun
1.
Either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane.  Synonyms: acoustic meatus, auditory canal, ear canal, external auditory canal.






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... each ceratohyal posteriorly. The stylohyal is loosely attached along its sides to the tympanic bulla and finally attached, at the posterior end, to the bulla at a point slightly ventral and posterior to the auditory meatus. ...
— Genera and Subgenera of Chipmunks • John A. White

... is composed of dense bone, and usually grows from the skull. It is generally sessile and solitary, and may grow into the interior of the skull, into the frontal sinus, into the cavity of the orbit or nose, or may fill up the external auditory meatus, causing most unsightly deformity and interference with ...
— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

... a German naturalist Krohn (Krohn stated that the structures described by my father as ovaries were in reality salivary glands, also that the oviduct runs down to the orifice described in the 'Monograph of the Cirripedia' as the auditory meatus.), and is of some interest in illustration of my father's readiness to admit ...
— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume II • Francis Darwin



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