acoustic meatus,auditory canal,auditory meatus,external auditory canal auricular point,auriculare- the craniometric point at the center of the opening of the external acoustic meatus meatus- a natural body passageway external ear,outer ear- the part of the ear visible externally ...
provide evidence of a cause; Accumulation of epidermal cerumen surrounding a skin ulceration in a narrowed external auditory meatus on the right side; Treatment, including enlargement of the bony stenosis of the ear canal; Discussion of the ear-cough reflex, which can be caused by ear wax.Jego...
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Ear wax is an accumulation of dead skin from the ear canal, dirt and cerumen produced in the ear. Its purpose is to acts as a protective barrier for the ear. Ordinarily, your ear should be capable of ‘self-cleansing’ by clearing the ear wax out of the ear canal. However, problems ...
Accumulation of ear wax is due to failure of the wax to be naturally expelled from the ear canal. Narrow ear canal, hairs, hearing aids and inappropriate "Q-tip" use can all be causes of cerumen retention. Cleaning the outer ear using cotton tip applicators will often push the wax ...
Cerumen, commonly known as ear wax, is a substance produced by the ear glands, which protects the skin from the external ear canal from water damage, trauma, foreign bodies, infections, etc.
of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal. Medical research has shown that the practice is both dangerous and ineffective and does not help remove earwax or alleged toxins. The claim by one manufacturer that ear candles originated with the Hopi tribe also has been ...
A system for removing ear wax from an ear canal is provided. The system includes a device for creating ultrasound waves at a frequency sufficient to dislodge ear wax in the ear canal and to break up the ear wax into small particles. The ... F Jegoux,F Legent,CBD Montreuil 被引量: 45...
(with or without blinding) in which a cerumenolytic was evaluated in comparison with either no treatment, a placebo, or other cerumenolytics in participants with hard or impacted ear wax, and in which the proportion of participants with sufficient clearance of the external canal to make ...
Complications had been experienced by 105 practitioners (38%) and included perforation, canal lacerations, and failure of wax removal. The removal of occlusive wax improved hearing by a mean of 5 dB over the frequencies analysed. Conclusions—About 44 000 ears are syringed each year in the ...