Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or named from Bartolomeo Eustachio, an Italian anatomist (died 1574).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Discovered by Eustachius.
- adjective Pertaining to the Eustachian tube.
- adjective a tubular instrument to be introduced into the Eustachian tube so as to allow of inflation of the middle ear through the nose or mouth.
- adjective (Anat.) a passage from the tympanum of the ear to the pharynx. See
Ear . - adjective (Anat.) a crescent-shaped fold of the lining membrane of the heart at the entrance of the vena cava inferior. It directs the blood towards the left auricle in the fetus, but is rudimentary and functionless in the adult.
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Examples
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On an airplane a baby may cry for their usual reasons, but they may also experience ear pain due to their narrower eustachian tubes behind the eardrum becoming blocked.
Corinne McDermott: Crying Babies & Crybabies on a Plane... Corinne McDermott 2011
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On an airplane a baby may cry for their usual reasons, but they may also experience ear pain due to their narrower eustachian tubes behind the eardrum becoming blocked.
Corinne McDermott: Crying Babies & Crybabies on a Plane... Corinne McDermott 2011
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On an airplane a baby may cry for their usual reasons, but they may also experience ear pain due to their narrower eustachian tubes behind the eardrum becoming blocked.
Corinne McDermott: Crying Babies & Crybabies on a Plane... Corinne McDermott 2011
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In children, the thin and flexible eustachian tube between the inner ear and nasal cavity often collapses and fails to drain an infected ear.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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In children, the thin and flexible eustachian tube between the inner ear and nasal cavity often collapses and fails to drain an infected ear.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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In children, the thin and flexible eustachian tube between the inner ear and nasal cavity often collapses and fails to drain an infected ear.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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In children, the thin and flexible eustachian tube between the inner ear and nasal cavity often collapses and fails to drain an infected ear.
You Raising Your Child Michael F. Roizen 2010
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Amusing typo of the day 'station tube'.... er that should be eustachian tube, methinks.
mikandra: I love Twitter mikandra 2010
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Amusing typo of the day 'station tube'.... er that should be eustachian tube, methinks.
I love Twitter mikandra 2010
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They can turn just about every organ in the body—the eustachian tube, the gill, the brain, the bladder, the Achilles tendon—into their home.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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