Log in or Sign up
  1. meatus love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A body opening or passage, such as the opening of the ear or the urethral canal.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In anatomy, a passage: applied to various ducts of the body.

Wiktionary

  1. n. anatomy A tubular opening or passage in the body.
  2. n. Plural form of meatus.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Anat.) A natural passage or canal. See Illust. of ear.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a natural body passageway

Etymologies

  1. From Latin meātus ("a course, passing"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin meātus, passage, from past participle of meāre, to pass; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The meatus is the opening of the urethra in the top thing on the end, the glans penis.”

    Simon & Schuster: As Husbands Go

  • “The meatus is the narrowest part of it, and the prostatic part is the widest.”

    Surgical Anatomy

  • “The 'meatus' contains three distinct channels; and the air, loitering, as it were, in it, and being longer in contact with the sensitive membrane by which it is lined, contributes to the acuter sense of smell.”

    The Dog

  • “The flap called the tragus protects of the auditory meatus, or earhole.”

    Archive 2009-06-01

  • “Nullus est meatus ad quem non pateat aditus impudicitiae.”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “When otolaryngologists "irrigate the sinuses" it is done by performing a needle puncture into the sinus, or sometimes when possible by cannulating the middle meatus.”

    Medpundit

  • “Hypospadias: Hypospadias is a congenital defect of the penis in which the urinary tract opening, or urethral meatus, is abnormally located away from the tip of the penis.”

    10/12/2007

  • “The meatus was actually almost as if hypospadia, in that it was far down the shaft of the penis which was located where the clitoris usually is.”

    Transcending Gender

  • “Hic venit currens per deserta Indiæ Maioris, hincque per meatus subterraneos transit plures terras: exiens sub Monte Aloth, inter Indiam et Aethiopiam, et Mauritaniam intra deserta Aegypti, irrigans totam longitudinem”

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville

  • “Hic venit currens per deserta Indi� Maioris, hincque per meatus subterraneos transit plures terras: exiens sub Monte Aloth, inter Indiam et Aethiopiam, et Mauritaniam intra deserta Aegypti, irrigans totam longitudinem”

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

Show 10 more examples...

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘meatus’.

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • sarra UUUUUGGGGHHHHHHHH.
    Also, 'words which don't remotely seem to have the right meaning'. Jun 2, 2010

  • chained_bear You know, Weirdnet #2 is kind of... open-ended... *thinking about the upstairs hallway at home* Oct 28, 2008

  • sionnach I bet you enjoyed that juxtaposition of the ear and the urethral canal, didn't you? eeeeewwwww! Mar 1, 2007

  • chained_bear If you're reading this page, you should read the comments about tragus. Mar 1, 2007

  • abraxaszugzwang A body opening or passage, such as the opening of the ear or the urethral canal. Mar 1, 2007

Tweets

Looking for tweets for meatus.

‘meatus’ has been looked up 2412 times, loved by 2 people, added to 27 lists, commented on 5 times, and has a Scrabble score of 8.