Ear wax: soft, waxy, yellow-brown material secreted by the sebaceous glands of the external ear.
Which forms inside the ear.
Waxy substance produced by glands in the external auditory meatus which functions to protect the external auditory meatus from infection by trapping microorganisms.
The name for the wax-like secretion found in the external ear.
A substance secreted by glands at the outer third of the ear canal. Usually cerumen does not accumulate in the ear canal, but it may clog the channel in some persons; the cerumen may become impacted and must be physically removed, not by irrigation of the canal but by use of a curette. Soft cerumen is easily removed by gentle syringe instillation of water in the canal.