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Meatus   Listen
noun
Meatus  n.  (pl. E. meatuses)  (Anat.) A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Meatus" Quotes from Famous Books



... quote the precise language of Murie in the Proceedings of the London Zoological Society, vol. 8, p. 188: "In the absence of pinna, a small orifice, a line in diameter, into which a probe could be passed, alone represents the external meatus." In the dried museum specimen this slit is wholly invisible, and even in the live or freshly killed animal it is by no means readily apparent. Keen observer of natural objects, as savage and barbaric man certainly is, ...
— Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley • Henry W. Henshaw

... aera, credo equidem, vivos ducent de marmore vultus, orabunt causas melius, caelique meatus describent radio et surgentia sidera dicent: tu regere imperio populos Romane memento; hae tibi erunt artes; pacisque imponere morem, parcere subjectis ...
— The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain - Nineteenth Century Europe • J. A. Cramb



Words linked to "Meatus" :   acoustic meatus, auditory canal, nasal meatus, external auditory canal



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