cerumen
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cerumen
1735–45; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin cēr ( a ) wax + ( alb ) umen albumen
Example Sentences
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Shell's plans to explore for oil off of South Africa's eastern shore, near a region known as the Wild Coast, threatened to etch in the cerumen of so many whales a dark new chapter.
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2022
What stark chapters of oceanic history will these projects write in cetacean cerumen?
From Salon • Mar. 6, 2022
While studies conducted up until the 1960s found little evidence supporting an antibacterial role for cerumen, more recent studies have found that cerumen provides some bactericidal protection against some strains of bacteria.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The growth of two fungi commonly present in otomycosis was also significantly inhibited by human cerumen.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
As all authors so far seem silent even as to how or when the wax is formed, we must resort to much careful dissection to find the relation of the cerumen system to health.
From Philosophy of Osteopathy by Still, A. T. (Andrew Taylor)
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