external auditory canal

Questions about external auditory canal

What does external auditory canal mean?

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

What is another word for external auditory canal?

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

external 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.