In some cases where the calculus has sent prolongations into the recesses of the meatus, it might first be necessary to crush it.
This is least objectionable in cases of stricture close to the meatus.
They should be passed into the meatus beyond the foreign body in the manner already described.
Here is a cochlea; a meatus; and, as it should seem, more than one tympanum.
Hmorrhage is seldom profuse, but if it is, it can always be arrested by packing the meatus with cocaine and adrenalin solution.
The tympanic membrane is derived from the tissue which separates the meatus auditorius externus from the tympanic cavity.
It is concave toward the meatus, and convex toward the tympanum.
The membrane may be bulged outwards into the meatus by the fluid, and thus lie nearer the observer's eye than normally.
The seminal fluid is discharged down the urethra and emitted at orifice marked "meatus."
The sudden cessation of pain and the appearance of a discharge from the meatus indicate perforation of the membrana tympani.
meatus me·a·tus (mē-ā'təs)
n. pl. me·a·tus·es or meatus
A body opening or passage, especially the external opening of a canal.