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These findings may stimulate reflections regarding the relevance of surgical correction of the meatus in minor forms of hypospadias.
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Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2017
Results showed that women considered the position and shape of the meatus as the least important penile aspect.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2017
The superglue was removed successfully, in the form of a cast, with warm three per cent hydrogen peroxide without damaging the meatus or the typanic membrane.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2014
There must be a compelling reason to want to wedge another person’s waxy nub into your external auditory meatus.
—Lauren Goode, Wired, 13 Aug. 2021
Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2017
Results showed that women considered the position and shape of the meatus as the least important penile aspect.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2017
The superglue was removed successfully, in the form of a cast, with warm three per cent hydrogen peroxide without damaging the meatus or the typanic membrane.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2014
There must be a compelling reason to want to wedge another person’s waxy nub into your external auditory meatus.
—Lauren Goode, Wired, 13 Aug. 2021
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meatus
noun
me·atus
mē-ˈāt-əs 
plural meatuses
-ə-səz
or meatus
-ˈāt-əs, -ˈā-ˌtüs
or meatus
-ˈāt-əs, -ˈā-ˌtüs
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