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bowl
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bowl1
1. Chiefly US a bowl-shaped building or other structure, such as a football stadium or amphitheatre
2. a bowl-shaped depression of the land surface

bowl2
1. a wooden ball used in the game of bowls, having flattened sides, one side usually being flatter than the other in order to make it run on a curved course
2. a large heavy ball with holes for gripping with the fingers and thumb, used in tenpin bowling


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nbsp;ridge to allow for unencumbered communication between the mastoid bowl and the meatus (figure 1).
By definition, modified radical mastoidectomy involves the grafting of the middle ear space, which (when disease permits) allows for the sealing of the eustachian tube and prevents the middle ear mucosa from draining into the epithelialized mastoid bowl.
 
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