meatus

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The part hypertrophied and pendent projects nearly an inch in front of the meatus, and forms a canal, continued forwards from this orifice.

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

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  • The meatus is the narrowest part of it, and the prostatic part is the widest. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • The part hypertrophied and pendent projects nearly an inch in front of the meatus, and forms a canal, continued forwards from this orifice. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • The orifice of the prepuce being directly opposite the meatus, and the parts offering no obstruction to the flow of urine, an operation for separating the prepuce from the glans would not be required Illustration] Plate 57.--Figure 4 Fig. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • The corpus spongiosum does not continue the canal of the urethra as far forwards as the usual position of the meatus, but has become defective behind the fraenum praeputii, leaving the canal open at this place. —  Surgical Anatomy
  • In such a case, if the canal of the urethra were perforate as far forwards as the meatus, and this latter in its normal position, the two false openings should be closed by an operation Illustration] Plate 57.--Figure 9 Fig. —  Surgical Anatomy
 

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  1. Latin meātus, passage, from past participle of meāre, to pass; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin meatus, a passage, from meare, go. Cf. conge, permeate.
 

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/məˈeɪtəs/
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