Oily ears - Oily ears

Japanese: アブラミミ - あぶらみみ
Oily ears - Oily ears

...Normally, it is sufficient to remove it once every two to three months. [Toriyama Minoru] There are individual differences in earwax, either dry (brown ears) or wet (rain ears, oily ears, cat ears), depending on the properties of the fatty acids it contains, and this does not change with environment or age. There is no gender difference in the incidence rate, and family studies have shown that it is a genetic polymorphism caused by a pair of alleles ( W , w ) on an autosome, with the wet type being genetically dominant. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Abramimi" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ふつうは2~3ヵ月に1回くらいとればよい。【鳥山 稔】 耳あかには,含まれる脂肪酸の性質により乾性(コナミミ)と湿性(アメミミ,アブラミミ,ネコミミ)の個人差があり,これは環境や年齢により変化しない。その出現率に性差はなく,家系調査により,常染色体上の1対の対立遺伝子(W,w)により生ずる遺伝的多型であることが知られており,湿型は遺伝的に優性である。…

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