Audiogram
Auditory brainstem response
Bilateral
Canal wall down procedure
Canal wall up procedure
Chorda tympani nerve
Cochlea
Conductive loss
Congenital cholesteatoma
CT scan
Dura
Internal auditory canal
Mastoid
Mastoidectomy
Modified radical mastoidectomy
Ossicles
Ossicular reconstruction
Petrous apex
Petrous apex epidermoid
Peripheral
Radical mastoidectomy
Squamous epithelium
Tinnitus
Tympanic membrane
Tympanoplasty
Unilateral
A hearing test conducted in a sound-proof room by a qualified
audiologist
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A special hearing test done while a patient is hearing clicks or certain
tones
On both sides
A procedure where the bony partition between the back part of the canal and
mastoid is removed
A procedure where the bony partition between the back part of the canal and
mastoid is kept intact
A nerve which transmits taste information from the front two-thirds of the
tongue back to the brain. The nerve travels through the middle ear
close to the ossicles
Part of the inner ear involved in hearing
A type of hearing loss which arises from the middle ear, due to wax, fixation
of the ossicles, ear infection, etc., and is often easily corrected by
medication and/or surgery
A cholesteatoma that arises in an ear from squamous epithelium that became
entrapped within the middle ear or petrous apex
A computerized tomography scan or special X-ray
with the unique ability to
image a combination of soft tissue, bone, and blood vessels
A tough fibrous layer which is found immediately under the skull which
protects the brain
A bony canal which transmits the cochlear, vestibular and facial nerves
The bone located directly behind the external ear which communicates with the
middle ear
A bony canal which transmits the cochlear, vestibular and facial nerves
A procedure where the bony partition between the back part of the ear canal
and mastoid is removed and an ossicular reconstruction with repair of the
eardrum is also performed
The three bones behind the eardrum, namely the malleus, incus and stapes
A procedure to repair the ossicles so that sound transmission can occur to
the inner ear
Bone that is located deep to the inner ear
A cholesteatoma that arises from squamous epithelium that became entrapped
within the petrous apex
Near the inner ear
A procedure done where the eardrum, malleus and incus are removed and the
bony partition between the back part of the ear canal and mastoid is also
removed
Skin
Ringing in the ears
Eardrum
A procedure to repair the eardrum and the ossicles
On one side
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