Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The yellowish, waxlike secretion of certain glands lining the canal of the external ear. Also called cerumen.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Cerumen.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anat.) See cerumen.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal
Examples
“* Linguistic aside: in German, earwax is called "Ohrenschmalz" which literally translates into "ear-lard" - giving a much better idea about the consistency of the stuff.”
“Excess earwax is pushed naturally to the opening of the ear canal, where it is washed away, pushed out as the cerumen glands secrete more wax and also by epithelial migration as your skin goes through its replacement cycle.”
“The January issue of Nature Genetics reports on the identification of a gene that determines whether your earwax is dry or wet; people of African and European ancestry have predominantly wet earwax.”
“This is "Important": The American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) will issue the first comprehensive clinical guidelines to help health care practitioners identify patients with cerumen (commonly referred to as earwax) impaction.”
“The American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) will issue the first comprehensive clinical guidelines to help health care practitioners identify patients with cerumen (commonly referred to as earwax) impaction ...”
“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.”
“The caption for the 'earwax' photo to which you link illustrates quite nicely the importance of proper punctuation usage.”
“Aside from an annoying tendency to write both 'earwax' and 'ear wax', 'eardrum' and 'ear drum', I didn't catch any obvious boo-boos.”
“On examination into the ear you will often find either the cavity filled or nearly so, with a hard black substance, (the inspissated "earwax") almost as hard as horn, or else the ear will be quite empty, and the sides of the cavity _dry_ and red, though perhaps not properly in a state of inflammation.”
“See your doctor to rule out correctable causes of hearing loss, such as earwax, an infection or a tumor, and have your hearing tested by a hearing specialist (audiologist).”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘earwax’.
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A Glossary of Filth
A compilation of those nitty-gritty yucky terms for substances and situations that we prefer not to encounter. Please folks, keep it clean; avoid the overly offensive ones.
"the terms...schmutz, smegma, muck, snarge, sewerage, mecomium, sewage, sebum, toe jam, pus, sludge, backwash and 130 more...
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The Whole Ball of Wax
Feel free to wax poetic.
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Creepy Accretions
Substances that accumulate on the human body, whether we want them to or not.
smegma, toejam, earwax, dingleberries, fromunda cheese, cerumen, sleep, rheum, mucopurulent disc..., navel wool, dandruff, sweat and 9 more...
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Found in keyboard
nail clippings, rice, paperclip fragment, biscuit crumbs, breadcrumbs, meat, earwax, snot, tears, staple, hair, eraser crumbles and 12 more...
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ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
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Ear Ear!
Ear words and phrases. A companion piece to b-see--the-eyes-have-it-b and the-nose-knows.
earmuffs, earmuffed, earmark, earring, earful, earphones, earbuds, earloop, earworm, earpiece, earplugs, ear-rent and 109 more...
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
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Without a Paddle (2004)
Words from a 2004 'Without a Paddle' film.
outdo, dip, great call, nagging, TGIF, cobweb, earwax, purty, white-water, christen, teem, carny and 10 more...
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Dewdew Drops
Human body sheddings, secretions, and offscum. Sometimes we gotta exuviate!
off the gound is a list of eye booger words made by trivet.dandruff, scurf, pityriasis capitis, furfuration, hair, saliva, salivation, expectoration, gleeking, halitosis, carbon dioxide, tears and 85 more...
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Disgusting words
crotch, gangrene, pustule, scab, pus, halitosis, earwax, scrotum, morgellon's, bedsore, corpse, septic and 1 more...
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frindley See cerumen. Apr 6, 2008