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external acoustic meatus
The passage leading inward through the tympanic portion of the temporal bone from the auricle to the tympanic membrane.
It consists of a bony inner portion & a fibrocartilagenous outer portion.
General
auditory canal (acoustic meatus)
References
- Grant's Atlas of Anatomy, 10th edition, AMR Agur & MJ Lee (eds),
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 1999
- Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999
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