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EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("external auditory canal" is a kind of...):

meatus (a natural body passageway)

Meronyms (parts of "external auditory canal"):

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

Holonyms ("external auditory canal" is a part of...):

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

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