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AUDITORY TUBE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does auditory tube mean?
• AUDITORY TUBE (noun)
The noun AUDITORY TUBE has 1 sense:
1. either of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx; equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum
Familiarity information: AUDITORY TUBE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Either of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx; equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting body parts
Synonyms:
auditory tube; Eustachian tube
Hypernyms ("auditory tube" is a kind of...):
salpinx (a tube in the uterus or the ear)
Holonyms ("auditory tube" is a part of...):
middle ear; tympanic cavity; tympanum (the main cavity of the ear; between the eardrum and the inner ear)
Context examples
It contains the pharyngeal opening of the auditory tube.
(Lateral Wall of the Nasopharynx, NCI Thesaurus)
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