Crossword clues for meatus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meatus \Me*a"tus\, n. sing. & pl.; E. pl. Meatuses. [L., a going, passage, fr. meare to go.] (Anat.) A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context anatomy English) A tubular opening or passage in the body. 2 (plural of meatus English)Category:English plurals
WordNet
n. a natural body passageway
Wikipedia
In anatomy, a meatus , plural "meatus" or "meatuses", is a natural body opening or canal.
Examples include:
- 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
- the superior meatus, middle meatus and inferior meatus of the nose
(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.)
Usage examples of "meatus".
There was simply a large opening extending from the meatus urinarius to the coccyx.
The right meatus was normal, and through it most of the urine passed, though some always dribbled through an opening in the perineum at a point where the root of the scrotum should have been.
Lloyd described a fetus showing absence of the external auditory meatus on both sides.
One case was that in which there was congenital absence of the external auditory meatus of both ears without much impairment of hearing.
Colzi reports a case in which the left ureter opened externally at the left side of the hymen a little below the normal meatus urinarius.
There was a complete half-turn to the left, so that the slit-like urinary meatus was reversed and the frenum was above.
There is a case recorded in which, after the slightest dose of quinin, tingling and burning at the meatus urinarius were experienced.
In the afternoon the auditory canal was found excoriated and red, and deep in the meatus the kernel was found, covered with blood.
Removal of the hair-pin was effected by first inserting within the meatus a Gruber speculum, encircling the unbroken projecting prong, and then raising the end of the broken one with a long-shanked aural hook, when the hair-pin was readily withdrawn.
The glans was riddled with holes, and numerous fistulae existed on the inferior surface of the urethra, the meatus being impermeable.
September, 1695, Bernard removed two stones from the meatus urinarius of a man, after a lodgment of twenty years.
Condition of the Urethra with three Strictures and a congenital contraction at the meatus or outlet.
As I put on my bath gown, I observed with satisfaction the bulging meatus of my cock, straining at the proverbial leash to perform its educational functions in the sweet quims of both Miss Molly Bashe and Miss Julia Denton.
With thumb and forefinger she squeezed the meatus at the very groove which separated it from the gristly and dark-veined shaft, and I ground my teeth to hold back all my pent-up juices.
The soft sweet slushings and the suckings and the nibblings of her dainty lips, the flickings of her ardent little pink tongue over my ardent, puckering cocktip and along the velvety pink and throbbing crannies of the meatus, had driven me to an ungovernable frenzy.