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external auditory meatus

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noun

Anatomy.
  1. the canal extending from the opening in the external ear to the tympanic membrane.


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The canal enters the skull through the external auditory meatus of the temporal bone.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

Lloyd described a fetus showing absence of the external auditory meatus on both sides.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

Not infrequently it burrows into the temporo-mandibular joint, or escapes by bursting into the external auditory meatus.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Dagan speaks of the issue of a lumbricoid from the external auditory meatus.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

One case was that in which there was congenital absence of the external auditory meatus of both ears without much impairment of hearing.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

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