Crossword-Solution: CERUMEN 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Woakes presented a paper on what he designated "ear-sneezing," due to the caking of cerumen in one ear.

Embedded in the deeper parts of the canal are glands which secrete the _cerumen_, or ear-wax, which keeps the canal moist, and helps to protect it against foreign bodies and insects.

The perspiratory glands are distributed where they are most needed,--in the eyelids, serving as lubricators; in the ear passages, to produce the _cerumen_, or wax, which prevents the intrusion of small insects; and in the scalp, to supply the hair with its natural pomatum.

Gamgee, of the Edinburgh Veterinary College, relates a case resulting from the presence within the external _meatus_ of a mass of concrete cerumen, or wax, which induced inflammation of the ear, extending to the brain.

The natural condition of the cavity as it can be seen by straining the ear outwards and backwards a little in a strong sun light, is moist, the surface covered slightly with a yellowish, greasy, soft substance (the cerumen) "earwax." When this is wanting or in excess, or its character changed, it is evidence of disease, and pain is likely to occur.