"aural toilet" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: aural toilets [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} aural toilet (plural aural toilets)
  1. (medicine, informal) A procedure used to clean the external auditory meatus of wax and other debris. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Medicine Synonyms: ear toilet
    Sense id: en-aural_toilet-en-noun-3Bm55x6p Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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