auditory meatus

Questions about auditory meatus

What does auditory meatus mean?

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

What is another word for auditory meatus?

Close synonyms include acoustic 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 auditory meatus a common word?

auditory 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.