air conduction

noun

Medicine/Medical. transmission of sound vibrations to the eardrum through the external auditory meatus (opposed to bone conduction).

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Examples from the Web for air conduction

When, on the other hand, the vibrations are heard better by air-conduction, the lesion is in the sound-perceiving apparatus.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.|Alexander Miles

Medicine definitions for air conduction

air conduction

n.

The atmospheric transmission of sound to the inner ear through the external auditory canal and via structures of the middle ear.

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