meato-, meat-, mea-
(Latin: opening or passageway in the body, bodily opening or canal; to go, to pass, passage)
impermeable
irremeable
meatal
meatomastoidectomy
Incision of the mastoid process to enlarge the passage in the nipple-shaped process of the mastoid portion of the temporal bone that extends downward and forward behind the external auditory meatus (opening).
The auditory, or acoustic, meatus consists of two passages in the ear; the external acoustic meatus leads from the auricle to the tympanic membrane (eardrum) and the internal acoustic meatus which is for the passage of nerves and blood vessels.
meatome
meatometer
meatoplasty
meatorrhapy
meatoscope
meatoscopy
meatotome
meatotomy
meatus
permeability
The property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid; as by osmosis or diffusion.
permeable
A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract, tube":
alveolo-;
antro-;
anu-;
celo-;
coelio-;
concho-;
fenestra-;
hernio-;
hiat-;
ora-;
parieto-;
poro-;
pyl-, pyle-;
pylor-;
sphinctero-;
splanchn-;
stomato-;
syringo-;
uretero-;
urethro-;
vagino-;
ventricul-.
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