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eardrum

[′ir‚drəm]
(anatomy)
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Usually a pediatrician will peek into the child's ear to see if the eardrum is inflamed, and parents can buy devices that use cameras to do the same thing.
According to the study published in the Journal of Translational Medicine, infection in ear occurs when fluid builds up in the middle ear behind the eardrum.
Stop it: A perforated eardrum usually heals within a few weeks and may not need any treatment.
The victim was left with a perforated eardrum, a swollen left ear, swelling on the left side of her jaw and scratches on her neck as a result.
Despite the hole in her eardrum healing, Elizabeth, known to friends and family as Betty, took him at his word and never even set foot in an airport for 60 years.
In its statement, the SCoP said the surgery to treat the hole in Asim's eardrum will take place on Thursday 31 October 2018.
Huang said the cockroach nibbled a small hole in the woman's eardrum. This was not the first time he treated someone with this case.
This often just pushes wax deeper into the ear, which can cause serious damage to the lining of your ear canal or eardrum. Never attempt to dig out excessive or hardened earwax with available items, such as a paper clip, a cotton swab or a hairpin.
Unlike the earbuds used by millions of people with personal audio devices such as smartphones, and tablets, ADEL[TM] Drum Earbuds feature an innovative bionic component that functions as a "safety valve," relieving the ear canal and ultimately the human eardrum from destructive pneumatic pressure that is compounded when a device seals the ear canal shut, leaving the pressure to pound the eardrum relentlessly.
Parts of the middle ear are infected and swollen and fluid is trapped behind the eardrum. This causes pain in the ear -- commonly called an earache.
A similar approach of combining a printed scaffold with biological material has been taken by a team of researchers from Italy and the Netherlands to produce an artificial eardrum. As reported in a paper in Biofabrication, they made the scaffold from the copolymer polyethylene oxide terephthalate)/poly(butylene terephthalate) (PEOT/PBT), which has already been approved for biomedical applications by the U.S.
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