ear canal

Questions about ear canal

What does ear canal mean?

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

What is another word for ear canal?

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

ear canal is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.