NOUN
- either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane
How To Use auditory canal In A Sentence
- Inflammation or infection of external auditory canal and auricle.
- Patients were excluded if their auditory canals were obstructed with cerumen or if they had contraindications to rectal or ear temperatures.
- With a graceful gesture she swept the tresses framing her right cheek behind a delicate ear, revealing that the pinna contained two openings to the auditory canal, one in the center, and a smaller one near the upper edge. Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle
- Contact dermatitis, irritant or allergic, can involve the pinna as well as the external auditory canal.
- The skin of the auditory canal contains many sebaceous glands and modified apocrine (ceruminal) glands and variable numbers of hair follicles.
- If the cerumen is difficult to remove, a ceruminolytic agent such as Cerumenex or even a simple 4 percent baking soda solution should be used in the office to soften the cerumen first to avoid traumatizing the external auditory canal.
- Otitis externa is dermatitis, usually bacterial, of the auditory canal and sometimes the external ear.
- Otitis externa usually is caused by water stagnating in the external auditory canal.
- Free floating debris in the endolymph of the semicircular canal is assumed to act like a plunger, causing continuing stimulation of the auditory canal for several seconds after movement of the head has ceased.
- In skin of external auditory canal , there are multilayer applanation - keratinocyte, epidermis, collagen fibrils, collagenoblast and leukomonocyte.
