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EXTERNAL EAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The part of the ear visible externally
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("external ear" is a kind of...):
external organ (an organ that is situated on or near the surface of the body)
Meronyms (parts of "external ear"):
acoustic meatus; auditory canal; auditory meatus; ear canal; external auditory canal (either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane)
auricle; ear; pinna (the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear)
Holonyms ("external ear" is a part of...):
auditory apparatus (all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears)
Context examples:
A carcinoma that arises from the external ear.
(External Ear Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The movement of the tympanic membrane in response to air pressure changes in the external ear facilitates the transmission of sound energy by causing vibration of the ossicular chain.
(Murine Tympanic Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include ceruminous adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the external ear and adenocarcinoma of the middle ear.
(Ear Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Actinic keratosis that develops in the skin of the external ear.
(External Ear Actinic Keratosis, NCI Thesaurus)
A vein that drains the auricle and acoustic meatus of the external ear.
(Anterior Auricular Vein, NCI Thesaurus)
Together they provide efferent innervation to the muscles of facial expression and to the lacrimal and salivary glands, and convey afferent information for taste from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue and for touch from the external ear.
(Facial Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The largest of three branches of the trigeminal nerve containing both sensory and motor neurons that project to the tongue, the lower face, lip, teeth and gums as well as the temple and external ear.
(Inferior Maxillary Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)
The organ of hearing: composed of the external ear, which includes the auricle and the external acoustic, or auditory, meatus; the middle ear, or the tympanic cavity with its ossicles; and the internal ear or inner ear, or labyrinth, which includes the semicircular canals, vestibule, and cochlea.
(Murine Ear, NCI Thesaurus)
