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What (who) is Meatus - definition
IN ANATOMY, A NATURAL BODY OPENING OR CANAL
Meatuses; Meatus!; Meatus (disambiguation)
Meatus
·noun ·sg & ·pl A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. ·see ·Illust. of Ear.
meatus
[m?'e?t?s]
¦ noun (plural same or meatuses) Anatomy a passage or opening leading to the interior of the body.
Origin
ME: from L., 'passage' from meare 'to flow, run'.
Meatus
In anatomy, a meatus (, ),OED 2nd edition, 1989, as . plural "meatus" or "meatuses",Entry "meatus" in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
Wikipedia
Meatus
In anatomy, a meatus (, mee-AY-təs), plural "meatus" or "meatuses", is a natural body opening or canal.
Meatus may refer to:
- the external acoustic meatus, the opening of the ear canal
- The internal auditory meatus, a canal in the temporal bone of the skull
- the urinary meatus, which is the opening of the urethra, situated on the glans penis in males, and in the vulva in females
- one of the nasal meatuses - the superior meatus, middle meatus and inferior meatus; each are passages through the nasal cavity within the skull
(The plural forms of "meatus" are: meatus, as a Latin form (of the fourth declension noun class, which the word belongs to); or meatuses, as a normally derived English plural; or often, and incorrectly, meati, by false analogy with the very common Latin -us/-i forms (such as alumnus/alumni), i.e., the second declension noun class.)
