Cerumen

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body fluid, external ear

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• Safer, PhD Definition Cerumen is the soft yellow wax secreted by glands in your ear canal, more commonly known as earwax.
• Link to this page Get in shape! Visit LookSmartFitness Update on cerumen and ceruminolyticsEar, Nose & Throat Journal, August, 2002 by Michael Hawke The term cerumen is generally considered to be synonymous with earwax, but technically it is not.
• Soft cerumen is more common in children and hard cerumen is more common in adults.
• However, to be scientifically correct, cerumen is the wax, per se, secreted by the cerumen glands in our ears.
• Repeat until all of the cerumen is gone.

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