acoustic meatus

Questions about acoustic meatus

What does acoustic meatus mean?

acoustic meatus means "either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane".

What is another word for acoustic meatus?

Close synonyms include auditory meatus, ear canal, auditory canal, external auditory canal. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acoustic meatus a common word?

acoustic meatus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.