| meatoscopy | Inspection, usually instrumental, of any meatus, especially of the meatus of the urethra. Origin: meato-+ G. Skopeo, to view (05 Mar 2000) |
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| meatotome | <surgery> An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice. Origin: Meatus + Gr. To cut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| meatotomy | An incision made to enlarge a meatus, e.g., of the urethra or ureter. Origin: meato-+ G. Tome, incision (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatus | <anatomy> A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. Origin: L, a going, passage, fr. Meare to go. (11 Mar 1998) |
| meatus acusticus externus | The passage leading inward through the tympanic portion of the temporal bone, from the auricle to the tympanic membrane; it consists of a bony (inner) portion and a fibrocartilaginous (outer) portion, the cartilaginous external acoustic meatus. Synonym: meatus acusticus externus, acoustic meatus, antrum auris, auditory canal, external auditory meatus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatus acusticus internus | internal acoustic meatus |
| meatus nasi | Any of three passages in the nasal cavity formed by the projection of the conchae: middle nasal meatus, lies below the inferior concha; middle nasal meatus, lies between the middle and inferior conchae; superior nasal meatus, lies between the superior and middle conchae. Synonym: meatus nasi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatus nasopharyngeus | The posterior part of the nasal cavity from the posterior limits of the conchae to the choanae. Synonym: meatus nasopharyngeus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| meatus urinarius | The slitlike opening of the urethra in the glans penis, the external orifice of the urethra (in the female) in the vestibule, usually upon a slight elevation, the papilla urethrae. Synonym: ostium urethrae externum, external opening of urethra, meatus urinarius, orificium urethrae externum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mean |
The arithmetic average; the sum of the data divided by the sample size.
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| mean temperature |
The average temperature of a process.
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| mean |
A measure of central tendency, the arithmetic average; a statistic used primarily with interval-ratio variables following symmetrical distributions.
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| measles |
Highly contagious skin disease caused by a virus in family Paramyxoviridae. The virus enters the body through the respiratory tract or the conjunctiva. Measles is endemic throughout the world.
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| mean |
a statistical measurement of the central tendency, or average, of a set of values. Contrast with median.
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| MEA | (informal) a source of income or livelihood |
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| MEA | evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries |
| MEA | (South African) an ear of corn |
| MEA | the time for eating a meal |
| MEA | the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae |
| MEA | composed of or covered with relatively large particles |
| MEA | scale-like plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion |
| MEA | Texas sage having intensely blue flowers |
| MEA | hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy |
| MEA | scale-like plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion |
| MEA | hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy |
| MEA | an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n |