The Collaborative International Dictionary
Auditory \Au"di*to*ry\, a. [L. auditorius.] Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.
Auditory canal (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.
Wiktionary
n. ear canal
WordNet
n. either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane [syn: auditory meatus, acoustic meatus, ear canal, external auditory canal]
Usage examples of "auditory canal".
Junior actually raised his trembling left hand to his ear, expecting to find the quarter tucked in the auditory canal, held between the tragus and the antitragus, waiting to be plucked with a flourish.
The pressure of our atmosphere changes constantly through a range of 5 per cent or so, and if the middle ear were closed, the pressure within it would rarely match the changing air pressure in the auditory canal.
As it is, however, air flows in and out through the Eustachian tube, keeping the pressure within the tympanic cavity continually equal to that in the auditory canal.
A few scratches in the vicinity of the right auditory canal looked superficial and V-shaped under magnification.
While Mama, by way of Father Wiehnke's auditory canal, was communicating her commissions and omissions, her thoughts, words, and works, to the supreme authorities of the only-saving Church, I, who had nothing to confess, slipped off the wooden bench, which was too smooth for my liking, and stood waiting on the stone floor.
Instead, he had to deal with the poison that was entering his head via the auditory canal.
To listen in on what you hear, it has run a line up to the auditory canal-a submicro-scopic thread, I assure you.
To listen in on what you hear, it has run a line up to the auditory canal—.