See Also: fish-mouth meatus(medicine)
fish-mouth mitral stenosis(medicine)
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation(dictionary)
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation(medicine)
Mouth-to-mouth respiration(medicine)
meatus(dictionary)
Meatus(health)
Meatus(medicine)
acoustic meatus(medicine)
spina meatus(medicine)

skew (oh) and fish-mouth meatus (medicine)


skew (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old North French; Origin: escuer 'to avoid']
if something skews the results of a test etc, it affects the results, making them incorrect
::All the people we questioned lived in the same area, which had the effect of skewing the figures.
to affect or influence someone's ideas, actions, or judgment, especially in a way that makes the ideas etc not correct or fair
::These assumptions about Communism skewed American foreign policy for decades.

fish-mouth meatus (medicine)


fish-mouth meatus


A red and swollen condition of the orifice of the urethra (urinary meatus) in gonorrhoea.

Internal acoustic meatus, a canal running from the opening of the internal acoustic meatus, through the petrous portion of the temporal bone, ending at the fundus where a thin plate of bone separates it from the vestibule; it gives passage to the facial and vestibulocochlear nerves together with the labyrinthine artery and veins.

Synonym: meatus acusticus internus, internal auditory meatus.