Meatus

Word MEATUS
Character 6
Hyphenation ‖Me a tus
Pronunciations /miˈeɪt.əs/

Definitions and meanings of "Meatus"

What do we mean by meatus?

A body opening or passage, such as the opening of the ear or the urethral canal. noun

In anatomy, a passage: applied to various ducts of the body. noun

A natural passage or canal. See Illust. of ear. noun

A tubular opening or passage in the body. noun

Plural form of meatus. noun

A natural body passageway noun

A tubular opening or passage in the body.

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The word "meatus" in example sentences

The meatus is the opening of the urethra in the top thing on the end, the glans penis. ❋ Susan Isaacs (2010)

The meatus is the narrowest part of it, and the prostatic part is the widest. ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)

The 'meatus' contains three distinct channels; and the air, loitering, as it were, in it, and being longer in contact with the sensitive membrane by which it is lined, contributes to the acuter sense of smell. ❋ William Youatt (1811)

The flap called the tragus protects of the auditory meatus, or earhole. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

Nullus est meatus ad quem non pateat aditus impudicitiae. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When otolaryngologists "irrigate the sinuses" it is done by performing a needle puncture into the sinus, or sometimes when possible by cannulating the middle meatus. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Hypospadias: Hypospadias is a congenital defect of the penis in which the urinary tract opening, or urethral meatus, is abnormally located away from the tip of the penis. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The meatus was actually almost as if hypospadia, in that it was far down the shaft of the penis which was located where the clitoris usually is. ❋ Mother Jones RN (2006)

Hic venit currens per deserta Indiæ Maioris, hincque per meatus subterraneos transit plures terras: exiens sub Monte Aloth, inter Indiam et Aethiopiam, et Mauritaniam intra deserta Aegypti, irrigans totam longitudinem ❋ Unknown (2004)

Hic venit currens per deserta Indi� Maioris, hincque per meatus subterraneos transit plures terras: exiens sub Monte Aloth, inter Indiam et Aethiopiam, et Mauritaniam intra deserta Aegypti, irrigans totam longitudinem ❋ Unknown (2003)

Current Mood: exterior accoustic meatus.10 gunslingers | crown me king ❋ Mordicai (2002)

My meatus was sticking to everything it came in contact with. ❋ Unclebob (2000)

It is administered through bifrontotemporal electrodes, one on each side of the head, placed an inch above the midpoint of an imaginary line joining the outer canthus of the eye and the external auditory meatus. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

Infection of extemal auditory meatus (sometimes due to a foreign body). ❋ Unknown (1993)

From a pointed snout, a long row of teeth ran back to the hole of the auditory meatus which served as an ear. ❋ Crichton, Michael, 1942- (1991)

I'll try to get him just behind the auditory meatus. ❋ Crichton, Michael, 1942- (1991)

· The right hand carefully introduces the catheter through the meatus. ❋ Unknown (1989)

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