Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A body opening or passage, such as the opening of the ear or the urethral canal.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In anatomy, a passage: applied to various ducts of the body.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A natural passage or canal. See
Illust. of ear.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a natural body passageway
Etymologies
- Latin meātus, passage, from past participle of meāre, to pass; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“The meatus is the opening of the urethra in the top thing on the end, the glans penis.”
“The meatus is the narrowest part of it, and the prostatic part is the widest.”
“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 flap called the tragus protects of the auditory meatus, or earhole.”
“Nullus est meatus ad quem non pateat aditus impudicitiae.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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”
“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”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘meatus’.
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anatomy etcetera
Funny sounding things found in bodies. Might be split up into several lists later...
zona incerta, mucous membrane, secretomotor, tear film, tear sac, duodenum, horripilation, peduncle, pelvic outlet, canal of Schlemm, visceral, chromosomal cross... and 134 more...
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Not edible
Things that sound edible but are not (usually). See Liberty's To Eat, or Not to Eat? for more diet food.
cinnabar, dulcimer, belfries, potto, maltha, grapple, loam, rake, tort, pomade, buffalo chip, wedgie and 165 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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