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MEATUS

\mˈiːtəs], \mˈiːtəs], \m_ˈiː_t_ə_s]\

Definitions of MEATUS

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language

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A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

A canal.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

A passage or channel, as the acoustic or auditory, and the nasal meatus.

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.

Meat, from meo, meatum, " to go. " A passage or canal.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

L. for Passage.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A canal or passage.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

n. [Latin] In anatomy, a natural passage or canal wider than a duct.

1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language

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