Definitions for meatuses

meatuses me·a·tus

Spelling: [mee-ey-tuh s]
IPA: /miˈeɪ təs/

Meatuses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 230 anagrams from letters in meatuses (aeemsstu).

Definitions for meatuses

noun

  1. an opening or foramen, especially in a bone or bony structure, as the opening of the ear or nose.

Origin of meatuses

1655-65; Latin meātus course, channel, equivalent to meā(re) to go, extend, have a course + -tus suffix of v. action

Examples for meatuses

Aristotle's words are (561a, 13), which are given by Harvey as "meatus venales."

It is concave toward the meatus, and convex toward the tympanum.

This is least objectionable in cases of stricture close to the meatus.

The glans was small and elongated, with the meatus red, and with lips œdematous and congested.

Both nerves also may be torn across just before they enter the meatus in severe brain injuries apart from fracture.

This is repeated with fresh pledgets until the meatus is cleansed.

The tympanic membrane is derived from the tissue which separates the meatus auditorius externus from the tympanic cavity.

Klliker states however that the blind end of the meatus becomes actually pushed in towards the tympanic cavity.

Here is a cochlea; a meatus; and, as it should seem, more than one tympanum.

Although the meatus could be distinctly felt, the catheter would not enter.

Word Value for meatuses
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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