(1) the urethral meatus(2) the urethral meatus(3) The apocrine sweat glands are confined to the axillae, areolae of the nipples, the anogenital area, and the external auditory meatus .(4) These may extend to the nasopharynx and they commonly terminate in the area of the external auditory meatus .(5) The external auditory meatus runs as a bony tube to the side of the tympanohyal we cannot see on the left-hand picture.(6) This includes the pinna on the side of the head and the external auditory meatus , or ear canal, which terminates at the eardrum.(7) The glands that produce ear ‘wax’ or cerumen are located in the external auditory meatus .