earwax

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It loosens the hard earwax, and then is naturally removed by facial movements and jaw usage.

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  • That's why tiny glands in the outer ear canal constantly pump out a watery substance, which gets mixed with bits of dead hair and skin and together is called earwax or cerumen. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
  • Just as you were questing your own sanity and if maybe it was just so hot that your earwax was melting, dripping like molten magma and buring though your ear drums, the jingle solidified into a song. —  Branded in the 80s!
  • Medicine's founding father routinely tasted his patients 'urine, sampled their pus and earwax, and smelled and scrutinized their stool. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • It loosens the hard earwax, and then is naturally removed by facial movements and jaw usage. —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
  • Mr. Pink: This definitely needs cross-posting to the old Mimi Soji topic. remora: well, I don't profess to know too much about earwax or nasal hair or (bashfully) pubic hair for that ... —  Japundit - Published news
 

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