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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

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

Deformities.—The auricle, together with the external auditory meatus, may be congenitally absent on one or on both sides.

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

Palate extremely elongated, and produced backwards as far as the level of the external auditory meatus by the meeting in the middle line of the largely developed pterygoids.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various

The cerebrum was partly removed; the external auditory meatus was preserved.

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

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