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plural meatus or meatuses
(anatomy) A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body. quotations examples
The illness. It came out of nowhere. His breathing all of a sudden started hurting the back of his throat. Then that overfull heat in various cranial meatus.
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, page 60
The vibrissae are coarse hairs whose follicles are located just within the nasal meatus.
2012, David W. Kennedy, Peter H. Hwang, editors, Rhinology: Diseases of the Nose, Sinuses, and Skull Base, Thieme
(anatomy) Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear. examples