How To Use Cerumen In A Sentence
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Various methods are used to remove cerumen, including irrigation, suction, and manual removal with a curette.
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An otoscope should be used to examine the external auditory canal for cerumen, foreign bodies, and abnormalities of the canal skin.
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In these cases, the external auditory canal lacks cerumen and is lined by dry, hypertrophic skin with variable swelling and stenosis.
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The glands that produce ear ‘wax’ or cerumen are located in the external auditory meatus.
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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.
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The glands that produce ear ‘wax’ or cerumen are located in the external auditory meatus.
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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
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Excess cerumen in the external ear canal commonly causes hearing loss and vertigo, contributes to infection and obscures visualization of the tympanic membrane.
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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.
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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
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This is particularly important for patients with unusually viscous cerumen, a narrowed external auditory canal or systemic allergies, especially in those who are immunosuppressed.
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Good otoscopic illumination, cerumen removal and attention to the position and mobility of the tympanic membrane (rather than only to the color) are important for an accurate diagnosis.
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Impacted cerumen (ear wax) causes problems for some 2.3 million people in the UK, leading to about four million ears being syringed each year.
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Predisposing conditions include lack of cerumen, which is antimicrobial, and active removal of cerumen that causes breaks in the skin and exposure to water, which macerates the skin and raises pH allowing growth of pathogens.
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Cerumen removal is essential for visualization of the tympanic membrane, and some type of curette should be used to remove cerumen.
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Patients were excluded if their auditory canals were obstructed with cerumen or if they had contraindications to rectal or ear temperatures.
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Earwax - cerumen - cleans and protects the ear by catching dust, debris, even insects.
Times, Sunday Times
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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 ...
Health News from Medical News Today
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Diabetes mellitus is also associated with impaired polymorphonuclear cell function and a higher pH of cerumen in the aural canal.
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I do not use the docusate calcium solution for anything but removing cerumen.
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The only trend noted was a higher success rate if the cerumen was considered to be soft rather than hard or mixed.
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Leading causes of conductive hearing loss include cerumen impaction, otitis media, and otosclerosis.
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An otoscope should be used to examine the external auditory canal for cerumen, foreign bodies, and abnormalities of the canal skin.
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The most common causes of hearing loss are aging, viral infection, exposure to loud sounds and impacted cerumen or ear wax.
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Unlike with ill-advised conversations-where you can later swear that you said "dollop," not "trollop" and this was a simple misunderstanding based on excessive cerumen build-up-everything is spelled out in black-and-white in e-mail messages.
Macworld
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There are many precipitants of this infection, but the most common is excessive moisture that elevates the pH and removes the cerumen.
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We once again reviewed methods of preventing cerumen build-up.
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Earwax, or cerumen, consists of saturated, long-chain fatty acids and is presumably high in energy.
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If the cerumen is difficult to remove, a ceruminolytic agent such as Cerumenex or even a simple 4 percent baking soda solution should be used in the office to soften the cerumen first to avoid traumatizing the external auditory canal.
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Psychiatric disorders, motion sickness, serous otitis media, cerumen impaction, herpes zoster, and seizure disorders also can present with dizziness.
