Crossword clues for earwax
earwax
- Aural secretion
- Canal clogger
- Sound blocker
- It can cause hearing loss
- Canal blocker
- Waxy secretion impairing hearing
- Substance accumulating in the lugholes
- Soft yellow secretion — cerumen
- Secretion in the lugholes
- It can build up and obstruct hearing
- Hearing loss cause, at times
- Hearing impairer
- Auditory canal blocker
- Hearing problem?
- Auricular problem
- Swab target
- Canal buildup
- Q-Tip target
- Cerumen, less technically
- A soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal
- Cause of hearing loss?
- Ceruminous impediment to hearing
- Swab's target
- Otic secretion
- Obstruction to hearing to increase after sources of evidence affect retrial
- Soft yellow secretion - cerumen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Earwax \Ear"wax`\, n. (Anat.) See Cerumen.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. A waxy substance secreted by the ear. n. A waxy substance secreted by the ear.
WordNet
n. a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal [syn: cerumen]
Wikipedia
Earwax, also known as cerumen, is a yellowish waxy substance secreted in the ear canal of humans and other mammals. It protects the skin of the human ear canal, assists in cleaning and lubrication, and also provides some protection from bacteria, fungi, insects and water.
Earwax consists of shed skin cells, hair, and the secretions of the ceruminous and sebaceous glands of the outside ear canal. Major components of earwax are long chain fatty acids, both saturated and unsaturated, alcohols, squalene, and cholesterol. Excess or compacted cerumen can press against the eardrum or block the outside ear canal or hearing aids, potentially causing hearing loss.
Usage examples of "earwax".
Once they worked her over with the manicure prodders and eyebrow tweezers, curling tongs and earwax scoops, left her fermenting all afternoon in a mealy flour face mask, then finished her off with a delicate sponging of red ochre across the cheekbones and a fine gleam of antimony above the eyes, Helena Justina was bound to be presentable enough, even to me.
Please, Master of the Pits, Earl of Earwax, allow me, your devoted slave, to perform this one last service for you.
He lubricated the notch with a bit of earwax, and put the rounded end of the spindle into the dish of his fire board, and held the pointed end in the hand socket.
Alice in Wonderland realm of polls, spin, and counting earwax on punch card ballots.
Sweet up front, then sears the back of your throat till your earwax tinkles.
He was not too well shaved for a rozz and you could viddy like patches of dried sweat on his shirt under the arms, and you could get this von of like earwax from him as he came close.
The expression on her pretty face as she watched the dessert return to the cart was eloquent with loathing, as if a whipped cream-covered chunk of earwax graced the dainty plate.
They would be trying to breathe things like acetone, while getting along without things like phosphorus and smothering in things like earwax and belly-button lint.
The steroid monster attached to it, Earwax thought, probably didn't weigh less than three, maybe four hundred pounds.