Usually means: Opening or passage in body.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. meatus: Merriam-Webster
  2. meatus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. meatus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. meatus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. meatus: Vocabulary.com
  6. meatus: Wordnik
  7. meatus: Wiktionary
  8. meatus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. meatus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. meatus: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. meatus: Dictionary.com
  12. Meatus (disambiguation), Meatus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Meatus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. meatus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. meatus: Rhymezone
  16. Meatus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. meatus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. meatus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. meatus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. meatus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. meatus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. meatus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Meatus: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Skeletal Anatomy (No longer online)
  7. meatus: Medical dictionary
  8. Meatus: Drug Medical Dictionary
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  1. meatus: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (meatus)

▸ noun:  (anatomy) A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.
▸ noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear. [(anatomy) An internal auditory meatus.]

Similar:
acoustic meatus, external auditory meatus, pseudomeatus, foramen, ear canal, urinary meatus, aditus, canal, mouth, lumen, more...

Opposite:
nonmeatus, external opening, outlet, orifice

Phrases:
auditory meatus, acoustic meatus, middle meatus, urinary meatus, inferior meatus, more...

Adjectives:
external, internal, urethral, middle, acoustic, inferior, auditory, urinary, superior, nasal, bony

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Similar:
acoustic meatus, external auditory meatus, pseudomeatus, foramen, ear canal, urinary meatus, aditus, canal, mouth, lumen, more...

Opposite:
nonmeatus, external opening, outlet, orifice

Phrases:
auditory meatus, acoustic meatus, middle meatus, urinary meatus, inferior meatus, Nasal meatus, superior meatus, ureteral meatus, meatus nasi, external auditory meatus, nasopharyngeal meatus, more...

Adjectives:
external, internal, urethral, middle, acoustic, inferior, auditory, urinary, superior, nasal, bony



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