MEATUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A natural body passageway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("meatus" is a kind of...):

passage; passageway (a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "meatus"):

acoustic meatus; auditory canal; auditory meatus; ear canal; external auditory canal (either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane)

nasal meatus (the passages in the nasal cavity formed by the projections of the nasal conchae)