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Definition of External auditory canal

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of External Auditory Canal

Literary usage of External auditory canal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"... are so obscured that in quite a large proportion of cases the chisel, if introduced into the external auditory canal, must be used somewhat blindly. ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Galvanic Nystagmus One electrode is placed in front of the tragus or in the external auditory canal of the ear to be examined, the other at an indifferent ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"M" The Relation between the Temperature Changes in the external auditory canal and the Circulation of the Brain. r/lu(,-r's A r.-/iir. ..."

4. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, William Sharpey, John Cleland, Allen Thomson (1867)
"... is a narrow irregular cavity in the substance of the temporal bone, placed between the inner end of the external auditory canal and the labyrinth. ..."

5. The Comparative anatomy of the domesticated animals by Auguste Chauveau (1887)
"... and a widened appendage opening outwardly, designated the concia or pavilion. THE external auditory canal. ..."

6. A Manual of Diseases of the Nose, Throat, and Ear by Edward Baldwin Gleason (1918)
"DISEASES OF THE external auditory canal The more common affections of the external auditory canal are acute circumscribed inflammation cr furunculosis, ..."

7. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1902)
"... is advisable because it attains the end in view more rapidly and pleasantly than the others. VITTUM. A Case of Sarcoma of the external auditory canal. ..."

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