meatus

Definition

A tubular opening or passage leading to the interior of the body.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin meātus (“a going, passing; a way, path, passage”).

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "The vibrissae are coarse hairs whose follicles are located just within the nasal meatus."