meatus
/mɪˈeɪtəs
/noun (plural same or meatuses) Anatomy
1A passage or opening leading to the interior of the body: the urethral meatus
1.1 (also external auditory meatus) The passage leading into the ear.These may extend to the nasopharynx and they commonly terminate in the area of the external auditory meatus....
- The glands that produce ear ‘wax’ or cerumen are located in the external auditory meatus.
- The apocrine sweat glands are confined to the axillae, areolae of the nipples, the anogenital area, and the external auditory meatus.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin, 'passage' from meare 'to flow, run'.
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