cerumen
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of cerumen
1735–45; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin cēr ( a ) wax + ( alb ) umen albumen
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What stark chapters of oceanic history will these projects write in cetacean cerumen?
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2022
Like humans, cetaceans — whales, dolphins, porpoises — produce ear wax, and in certain species, this wax, or cerumen, builds up over their lifetime.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2022
Earwax, also known by the medical term cerumen, is a yellowish, waxy substance secreted in the ear canal of humans and many other mammals.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The cerumen in the canal is also carried outwards, taking with it any dirt, dust, and particulate matter that may have gathered in the canal.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
From this I think that the cause of croup is simply the result of abnormality of the cerumen system.
From Philosophy of Osteopathy by A. T. (Andrew Taylor) Still
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