Crossword clues for eustachian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eustachian \Eu*sta"chi*an\, a. [From Eustachi, a learned Italian physician who died in Rome, 1574.] (Anat.)
Discovered by Eustachius.
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Pertaining to the Eustachian tube; as, Eustachian catheter.
Eustachian catheter, a tubular instrument to be introduced into the Eustachian tube so as to allow of inflation of the middle ear through the nose or mouth.
Eustrachian tube (Anat.), a passage from the tympanum of the ear to the pharynx. See Ear.
Eustachian valve (Anat.), a crescent-shaped fold of the lining membrane of the heart at the entrance of the vena cava inferior. It directs the blood towards the left auricle in the fetus, but is rudimentary and functionless in the adult.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wikipedia
Eustachian, meaning "discovered by, described by or attributed to Eustachi" (Latin name Eustachius) may refer to:
Usage examples of "eustachian".
Teflon is used to line frying pans, but has also seen use in artificial organs: eustachian tubes, vitreous humors of the eye, veins and arteries, bladders, uteri, intestinal walls.
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 connection called the eustachian tube, beginning on the nether side of the eardrum, is linked to a reservoir of air provided by the cavity located just above the roof of your mouth.
When you swallow, the eustachian tube opens and admits enough pressure to equalize the inside and outside pressures.
But during the rapid changes in air pressure that occur during an elevator ride or an airplane dive, the eustachian tube remains closed, and it takes some vigorous swallowing to even things out afterward.
In persons in whom from disease or a cold the eustachian tube is permanently or temporarily closed, the sense of hearing is injured.
He kept swallowing as the pressure increased, to allow his Eustachian tube to open and admit air under higher pressure.
My mouth was performing an automatic yawning and gasping, emptying the Eustachian tube to protect my ear drums and delicate inner ear.
Toytoo inhaled deeply, manipulating his eustachian tube so that smoke squirted in perfect rings from his ears.
A bullet had nicked his left ear, too, and though the wound was superficial, blood followed the folds of the ear, into the resonant depths, half deafening him but also oozing down his eustachian tube and into his throat, causing him to cough in fits.
The Eustachian tube evolved from the first gill slit of the ancestral fish.
With a head cold and sinus infection, the rapid climb during takeoff forced mucus tightly into the Eustachian tubes of Mundy's inner ear, reducing the air pressure inside the sinuses and inner ear and jamming the sinuses and inner ear closed.