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Meaning of meatus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
miˈeɪ.təs

Definitions

  1. A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.
  2. Ellipsis of acoustic meatus, the passage leading into the ear.

Equivalents

Afrikaans buis
Bosanski Gang
Deutsch Gang
Español meato
Suomi aukko
Français méat
Hrvatski Gang
Italiano meato
Português meato
Српски Gang

Examples

“The urinary meatus is the opening of the urethra, situated on the glans penis in males, and in the vulva in females.”
“The illness. It came out of nowhere. His breathing all of a sudden started hurting the back of his throat. Then that overfull heat in various cranial meatus.”
“The vibrissae are coarse hairs whose follicles are located just within the nasal meatus.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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