Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cerumen

Cerumen , noun

[New Latin, from Latin cera wax.]

(Physiology) The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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