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Ear canal

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acoustic meatusnoun(anatomy) An external acoustic meatus.
auditory canalnoun(anatomy) The ear canal.
auditory meatusnounSynonym of ear canal.
external auditory canalnounSynonym of ear canal.
external auditory meatusnoun(anatomy) The ear canal.
earholenounThe outer aperture of the ear; the entrance to the ear canal.
outer earnoun(anatomy) The outer portion of the ear which includes the auricle and the ear canal and leads to the eardrum.
internal auditory canalnoun(anatomy) A short auditory canal in the petrous portion of the temporal bone through which pass the facial and vestibulocochlear nerves and the labyrinthine artery.
middle earnoun(anatomy) The cavity in the temporal bone between the eardrum and the inner ear that contains the ossicles, and which conveys sound to the cochlea.
meatusnoun(anatomy) A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.
external earnoun(anatomy) The outer ear.
auditory tubenoun(anatomy) The Eustachian tube.
eardrumnoun(anatomy) A thin membrane that separates the outer ear from the middle ear and transmits sound from the air to the malleus.
conchanounAny shell-shaped structure:
ear hairnoun(anatomy, dermatology) The terminal hair arising from the follicular cartilage inside the external auditory meatus in humans.
auriclenoun(anatomy) The outer ear or pinna.
canalnounAn artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
eustachian tubenoun(anatomy) In humans and other land vertebrates, a tube that links the nasopharynx to the cavity of the middle ear to allow the equalization of the pressure on both sides of the eardrum.
tympanic membranenoun(anatomy, medicine) Synonym of eardrum.
earbonenoun(anatomy) Any bone in the ear.

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