"meatus" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /miˈeɪ.təs/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation], /miˈeɪ.təs/ [plural], /miˈeɪˌtus/ [plural] Audio: En-us-meatus.ogg [General-American] Forms: meatus [plural], meatuses [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪtəs Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin meātus (“a going, passing; a way, path, passage”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mey- (change)}}, {{lbor|en|la|meātus#Etymology_2|t=a going, passing; a way, path, passage}} Learned borrowing from Latin meātus (“a going, passing; a way, path, passage”) Head templates: {{en-noun|meatus|+}} meatus (plural meatus or meatuses)
  1. (anatomy) A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body. Categories (topical): Anatomy Translations (tubular opening): buis (Afrikaans), (dào) (Chinese Mandarin), (kǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), aukko (Finnish), meatus (Finnish), méat [masculine] (French), meato [masculine] (Portuguese), meato [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-meatus-en-noun-OMZEFk0H Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'tubular opening': 91 9
  2. (anatomy) Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis Alternative form of: acoustic meatus (extra: the passage leading into the ear) Categories (topical): Anatomy Synonyms: ear canal
    Sense id: en-meatus-en-noun-r88utaXB Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 75 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 25 75 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: external auditory meatus, meatal, meato-, permeate Related terms: ear canal, foramen

Inflected forms

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