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Ear canal   /ɪr kənˈæl/   Listen
Ear canal

noun
1.
Either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane.  Synonyms: acoustic meatus, auditory canal, auditory meatus, external auditory canal.






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"Ear canal" Quotes from Famous Books



... light, so the internal ear has an apparatus in front of it to act upon the sound waves. This is called the drum (tympanum). It consists of a fold of thin, delicate skin stretched tightly across the bottom of the outer ear canal, as parchment is stretched across the head of a drum. If you should take a hand-mirror—best a hollow, or concave, one—and throw a bright ray of light deep into some one's ear, you would be able, after a little trying, to see this drum-skin stretched ...
— A Handbook of Health • Woods Hutchinson



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