How To Use cerumen In A Sentence
- Various methods are used to remove cerumen, including irrigation, suction, and manual removal with a curette.
- An otoscope should be used to examine the external auditory canal for cerumen, foreign bodies, and abnormalities of the canal skin.
- In these cases, the external auditory canal lacks cerumen and is lined by dry, hypertrophic skin with variable swelling and stenosis.
- The glands that produce ear ‘wax’ or cerumen are located in the external auditory meatus.
- Exostoses and osteomas are benign bony growths of the external auditory canal that interfere with normal cerumen migration, leading to occlusion and conductive hearing loss.
- The glands that produce ear ‘wax’ or cerumen are located in the external auditory meatus.
- This is "Important": The American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) will issue the first comprehensive clinical guidelines to help health care practitioners identify patients with cerumen (commonly referred to as earwax) impaction. Archive 2008-09-01
- Excess cerumen in the external ear canal commonly causes hearing loss and vertigo, contributes to infection and obscures visualization of the tympanic membrane.
- Crying (and most young children cry when their ears are examined), removal of cerumen with associated irritation of the auditory canal and fever can all cause redness of the eardrum in the absence of middle ear infection.
- Excess earwax is pushed naturally to the opening of the ear canal, where it is washed away, pushed out as the cerumen glands secrete more wax and also by epithelial migration as your skin goes through its replacement cycle. Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives
