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air conduction

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

air conduction in Medicine

air conduction

n.
  1. 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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