auditory canal

Questions about auditory canal

What does auditory canal mean?

auditory canal means "either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane".

What is another word for auditory canal?

Close synonyms include auditory meatus, acoustic meatus, ear 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 auditory canal a common word?

auditory canal 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.