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ear candling

ear candling noun: an alternative medicine practice supposed to assist the natural clearing of earwax from a person's ear, involving lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.

Noun

ear candling (uncountable)

  1. An alternative medicine practice supposed to assist the natural clearing of earwax from a person's ear, involving lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.
    Synonyms:
    ear coning, thermal-auricular therapy

Synonyms of ear candling

Origin of ear candling

From ear candle + -ing.

Questions about ear candling

What does ear candling mean?
Ear candling means an alternative medicine practice supposed to assist the natural clearing of earwax from a person's ear, involving lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal.
What part of speech is ear candling?
Ear candling is a noun.

Words near ear candling in the dictionary

  1. ear buds
  2. ear canal
  3. ear canals
  4. ear candle
  5. ear candles
  6. ear candling
  7. ear candy
  8. ear chair
  9. ear chairs
  10. ear cockle
  11. ear coning

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