| 1. | Unlike modern cetaceans, basilosaurids retained a large external auditory meatus.
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| 2. | The openings to the posterior ethmoidal sinuses exist under the superior meatus.
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| 3. | Most inhaled airflow travels between the inferior turbinate and the middle meatus.
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| 4. | The first pharyngeal groove produces the external auditory meatus ( ear canal ).
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| 5. | The meatus has varying degrees of sensitivity to touch.
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| 6. | The inferior meatus is the largest of the three.
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| 7. | Localization of urethral meatus was described in detail.
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| 8. | Symptoms of urethral injury include hematuria, blood at the meatus, and dysuria.
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| 9. | The urinary meatus is located below the clitoris and just in front of the vagina.
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| 10. | This produces a spiral stream of urine and has the effect of cleaning the external urethral meatus.
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