external ear
Americannoun
noun
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Roughly 1,500 babies born in the United States each year have either microtia or a related condition, anotia, in which the entire external ear is missing.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
There are bone-conduction hearing aids, intended mainly for people whose principal hearing defects are in their middle ears or external ear canals; the most effective ones are physically anchored to the skull.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2019
“Wouldn’t it be fascinating to know what changes in that organism that make it go from external ear infection to an invader?”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 23, 2019
Cartilage provides flexible strength and support for body structures such as the thoracic cage, the external ear, and the trachea and larynx.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Next may be placed the stature and external proportions, and the form of such appendages as the external ear and tail.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson
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