external ear
the outer portion of the ear, consisting of the auricle and the canal extending to the tympanic membrane.
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How to use external ear in a sentence
Again, the whole external ear may be looked upon as a rudimentary structure, since it does not appear to aid the hearing in man.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles MorrisAt about seventy days the eyelids are visible, the nose becomes prominent, the mouth enlarges, and the external ear may be seen.
This opening led into the mouth-cavity, and according to Huschke it became the external ear-passage.
Form and Function | E. S. (Edward Stuart) RussellThe bony external ear-passage is in general as highly developed in the lower Eastern monkeys and the anthropoid apes as in man.
Evolution in Modern Thought | Ernst HaeckelThe aural deformities that fall under the head of stigmata, or have been classed as such, affect all portions of the external ear.
Degeneracy | Eugene S. Talbot
British Dictionary definitions for external ear
the part of the ear consisting of the auricle and the auditory canal
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