meatus
UK/miˈeɪ.təs//miˈeɪ.təs/
meatus noun: a tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body. Also the ellipsis of acoustic meatus.
Noun
meatus (plural meatus or meatuses)
- 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.
- 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.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 60
Also used as
meatus is also the ellipsis of acoustic meatus.
Synonyms of meatus
Forms of meatus
| plural | meatus |
|---|---|
| plural | meatuses |
Origin of meatus
Learned borrowing from Latin meātus (“a going, passing; a way, path, passage”).
Words formed from meatus
Phrases with meatus
Words that rhyme with meatus
Questions about meatus
- What does meatus mean?
- Meatus means a tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.
- What part of speech is meatus?
- Meatus is a noun.
- How do you pronounce meatus?
- Meatus is pronounced /miˈeɪ.təs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of meatus?
- The plural of meatus is meatus.
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