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In addition to not reducing your ambient hearing, bone conduction headphones are great for people like me who have sensitive ear canals that are irritated by earbuds.
—Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Swimmer’s ear can be pretty uncomfortable: your ear canal fills up with a sticky discharge and may become smelly and painful, explains Hildrew.
—Julia Ries, Outside Online, 14 Nov. 2024
Such a catalog of noises doesn’t even include the kind so many of us inject directly into our ear canals.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
Wireless earbuds such as Apple’s AirPods, which partially occlude the ear canal, and fully occlusive ones, such as Nuheara’s IQbuds or Bose’s Sleepbuds, show how advances in miniaturization and battery technology have enabled small, lightweight form factors that weren’t possible just a decade ago.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2019
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Word History
First Known Use
1859, in the meaning defined above
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“Ear canal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ear%20canal. Accessed 7 Jan. 2025.
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ear canal
nounMedical Definition
ear canal
noun
: the tubular passage of the outer ear leading to the tympanic membrane
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