external auditory meatus

American  

noun

Anatomy.

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Entry, 1� inch above the line from the lower margin of the orbit to the external auditory meatus, and 1� inch behind the external angular process; exit, a little posterior to the left parietal eminence.

From Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre by Makins, George Henry

"Parietal breadth" is the breadth, across the braincase, taken approximately half way between the squamosal root of the zygoma and the external auditory meatus, where there is a lateral bulge in the squamosal bone.

From Mammals Obtained by Dr. Curt von Wedel from the Barrier Beach of Tamaulipas, Mexico by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)

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)

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)