external auditory canal

Sometimes also the external auditory canal or middle ear can be treated.

Foreign body in the external auditory canal (not always)

Checks the re-infection from external auditory canal and eustachian tube.

Cold or warm water or air is irrigated into the external auditory canal, usually using a syringe.

Also symmetric, bilateral stenosis or atresia of the external auditory canals is described.

Even in cases with normal auricles and open external auditory canals, the ossicular chain is often malformed.

Through irritation of the nerve, diseases of the external auditory canal (wax, for example) can also cause cough.

Keratosis obturans is the growth of extra epithelial tissue in the external auditory canal of the ear.

Aural atresia (a closed external auditory canal) also causes temporary auditory deprivation in young children.

The middle ear is involved, although it may extend to the external auditory canal if there is tympanic membrane perforation.

They enter the pinna and continue into the external auditory canal (ear canal) and then to the eardrum.

Individuals with Nager syndrome typically have the malformations of the auricle, external auditory canal, and middle ear, including the ossicles.

The outer third of the human external auditory canal lining which contains the cerumen glands also contains hair follicles.

Sound funnels through the pinna into the external auditory canal, a short tube that ends at the eardrum (tympanic membrane).

First branchial cleft fistula typically originates in the angle of the mandible and extend to the external auditory canal.

Ceruminous adenocarcinoma is a malignant neoplasm derived from ceruminous glands of the external auditory canal.

The auricular branch of the vagus nerves supplies a portion of the posterior wall of the external auditory canal.

Excess or impacted cerumen can press against the eardrum and/or occlude the external auditory canal, usually hindering hearing.

The glands drain into larger ducts, which then drain into the guard hairs that reside in the external auditory canal.

An acoustic signal from an energy source, such as a radio, enters into the external auditory canal, and is funneled through to the tympanic membrane (eardrum).

Attempts to surgically reconstruct the external auditory canal and improve hearing in children with Treacher Collins Syndrome have not yielded positive results.

The head is designed so that when a speculum is attached and fitted snugly into the patient's external auditory canal, an air-tight chamber is produced.

For people with conductive hearing loss, the BAHA bypasses the external auditory canal and middle ear, stimulating the functioning cochlea.

Anteriorly placed sigmoid sinus: In such circumstances, the distance between the sigmoid sinus and the external auditory canal may be a few millimeters or less.

Ceruminous glands are specialized sudoriferous glands (sweat glands) located subcutaneously in the external auditory canal.