Chapter 13
Terms
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- AU
- each/both ears
- presbycusis
- hearing impairment in old age
- audi/o
- hearing
- otis media
- inflammation of the middle ear
- meniere disease
- chronic disease of the inner ear characterized by dizziness and ringing in the ear and hearing loss
- mastoid/o
- mastoid bone
- tympan/o
- tympanic membrane (eardrum, middle ear)
- ceruminoma
- tumor of a glad that secretes earwax
- staped/o
- stapes
- aur/i
- ear
- vertigo
- a sense that either one's own body or the enviornment is revolving. May indicate inner ear disease
- AD
- right ear
- aur/o
- ear
- labyrinth/o
- labyrinth (inner ear)
- tinnitus
- ringing in the ears
- acoustic neuroma
- benign tumor within the auditory canal growing from the acoustic nerve, may cause hearing loss
- ot/o
- ear
- AS
- left ear
- otitis externa
- inflammation of the outer ear
- myring/o
- tympanic membrane (eardrum)
- acou/o
- hearing