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Definition: Ear Canal |
Ear CanalNoun1. Either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Ear CanalSynonyms: acoustic meatus (n), auditory canal (n), auditory meatus (n), external auditory canal (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ear Canal |
| English words defined with "ear canal": ampulla ♦ cerumen ♦ earwax ♦ otitis externa ♦ Reissner's membrane. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ear canal": bone conduction, bone-conduction ♦ ear defender, ear protector, external ear canal ♦ hearing protector, hearing-protective device ♦ internal ear canal ♦ reusable ear plugs ♦ threshold of feeling ♦ Vestibular Aqueduct. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | This test requires insertion of a small soft plug into the opening of the child's ear canal. (references) | |
The outer ear collects sound waves and works like a funnel to send them through a narrow tube (ear canal) that leads inside the ear. At the end of the ear canal is the eardrum (tympanic membrane). (references) | ||
The plug contains a speaker, a microphone, and a device that is able to change the air pressure in the ear canal, allowing for several measures of the middle ear. The child feels air pressure changes in the ear or hears a few brief tones. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "ear canal": external ear canal ♦ internal ear canal. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ear canal | 30 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ear canal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | oeregang (acoustic duct, auditory canal, auditory meatus), hoeregang (acoustic duct, auditory canal, auditory meatus). (various references) | |
Dutch | gehoorgang (acoustic duct, auditory canal, auditory meatus). (various references) | |
French | conduit auditif, conduit acoustique. (various references) | |
German | Ohrenkanal, Gehoergang (acoustic duct, auditory canal, auditory meatus). (various references) | |
Italian | condotta o comportamento uditivo (acoustic duct, auditory canal, auditory meatus), condotta o comportamento acustico (acoustic duct, auditory canal, auditory meatus). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earay analcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | canal do ouvido, asa (ala, bail, flyer, handle, knob, wing, yoke). (various references) | |
Spanish | conducto auditivo (acoustic duct, auditory canal, auditory meatus), conducto acústico (acoustic duct, auditory canal, auditory meatus). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-l-n-r" | |
-2 letters: anlace, arcana, arcane, carnal, lancer. | |
-3 letters: alane, anear, areal, areca, arena, canal, caner, carle, clean, clear, craal, crane, lacer, lance, learn, nacre, rance, renal. | |
-4 letters: acne, acre, alae, alan, alar, alec, anal, area, cane, care, carl, carn, clan, earl, earn, elan, lace, lane, lean, lear, narc, near, race, rale, real. | |
-5 letters: aal, ace, ala, ale, ana, ane, arc, are, can, car, cel, ear, era, ern, lac, lar, lea, nae, ran, rec. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-e-l-n-r" | |
+2 letters: calamander, candelabra. | |
+3 letters: calamanders, candelabras, cardinalate, sacramental. | |
+4 letters: aeronautical, cardinalates, extracranial, sacramentals, tabernacular. | |
+5 letters: aerodynamical, anaerobically, antibacterial, ascertainable, charlatanries, contralateral, cyanoacrylate, rarefactional, sacramentally. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 61 72 43 61 6E 61 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000011 01100001 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E a r   C a n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0061 0072 0043 0061 006E 0061 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39678423767806778 |
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