meatus.
A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.
Meaning & usage
A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.
The urinary meatus is the opening of the urethra, situated on the glans penis in males, and in the vulva in females.
Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin meātus (“a going, passing; a way, path, passage”).
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