Earwax Definition

Earwax Sentence Examples

• A perforated eardrum can be prevented by avoiding insertion of any object into the ear to clean it or to remove earwax (cerumen).

• Glands within the skin of the canal produce a waxy substance called cerumen (popularly called earwax).

• Less common causes of cerumen impaction include overproduction of earwax by the glands in the ear canal or an abnormally narrow ear canal that tends to trap the wax.

• Impaction-A condition in which earwax has become tightly packed in the outer ear to the point that the external ear canal is blocked.

• Think about inventing a flexible yet discrete device for decisively removing earwax.