## TWELVE FIGURES Numerous sebaceous glands and apocriiie sudoriparous glands open upon the surface of the external auditory meatus of the cat and secrete a yellowish or brown viscous cerumen. Concerning these glands, there is little information, although Teger ('06) and some early authors describ
The tympanic plate and external auditory meatus in the Eskimo
โ Scribed by T. D. Stewart
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1933
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 759 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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Cerumen plays an important role in the protection of the external auditory meatus against several kinds of damage. Its hydrophobic properties, due to the high concentration of lipids, shelter the canal from physical damages, while other components probably protect against certain microbial strains.
## Abstract Cranial anomalies vary in degree of expression. Although some are nominal i.e. slight in expression, other anomalies are quite striking in appearance. Such is the case in a cranium recovered from the archaeological site of Carthage in Tunisia. Based on observations during ongoing resear