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acoustic meatus

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Noun1.acoustic meatus - either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membraneacoustic meatus - either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane
auricular point, auriculare - the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus
meatus - a natural body passageway
external ear, outer ear - the part of the ear visible externally


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Narrowing of the internal and external acoustic meatus (sensorineural loss) and sclerosis of the skull may occur.
proposed that impairments in the vestibular system may result from tethering of the vestibular nerve as it passes through the internal acoustic meatus during shearing and from the acceleration/deceleration forces often sustained during TBI [6].
All necropsied birds had hemopericardium due to RAR at the point of the junction with the vena cava, and 85% of them had blood in the oral cavity and external acoustic meatus.
 
 
 
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