meatus

IPA: mˈitɪs

(anatomy) A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.
(anatomy) Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear. [(anatomy) An internal auditory meatus.]

Examples of "meatus" in Sentences

Nullus est meatus ad quem non pateat aditus impudicitiae.
The flap called the tragus protects of the auditory meatus, or earhole.
The meatus is the narrowest part of it, and the prostatic part is the widest.
The meatus is the opening of the urethra in the top thing on the end, the glans penis.
When otolaryngologists "irrigate the sinuses" it is done by performing a needle puncture into the sinus, or sometimes when possible by cannulating the middle meatus.
Hypospadias: Hypospadias is a congenital defect of the penis in which the urinary tract opening, or urethral meatus, is abnormally located away from the tip of the penis.
The 'meatus' contains three distinct channels; and the air, loitering, as it were, in it, and being longer in contact with the sensitive membrane by which it is lined, contributes to the acuter sense of smell.