AUDITORY MEATUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auditory meatus mean? 

• AUDITORY MEATUS (noun)
  The noun AUDITORY MEATUS has 1 sense:

1. either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane

  Familiarity information: AUDITORY MEATUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUDITORY MEATUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

acoustic meatus; auditory canal; auditory meatus; ear canal; external auditory canal

Hypernyms ("auditory meatus" is a kind of...):

meatus (a natural body passageway)

Meronyms (parts of "auditory meatus"):

auricular point; auriculare (the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus)

Holonyms ("auditory meatus" is a part of...):

external ear; outer ear (the part of the ear visible externally)

 Context examples 

Discharge of cerebrospinal fluid through the external auditory meatus or through the eustachian tube into the nasopharynx.

(Cerebrospinal Fluid Otorrhea, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The geniculate ganglion cells send central processes to the brain stem and peripheral processes to the taste buds in the anterior tongue, the soft palate, and the skin of the external auditory meatus and the mastoid process.

(Geniculate Ganglion, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)