Word Parts
Anatomy
S/S
Diseases & Disorders
Treatments & Procedures
100
Combining form meaning hearing
What is aud/o or audi/o?
100
This consists of the flap-like appendages on the sides of your head and a skin-lined canal
What is the outer ear?
100
A sensation of dizziness
What is vertigo?
100
Inflammation of the middle ear
What is otitis media?
100
Procedure that measures hearing using an audiometer
What is audiometry?
200
Combining form meaning nose
What is rhin/o?
200
Earwax
What is cerumen?
200
Pain in the ear
What is otalgia?
200
Hearing impairment due to old age
What is presbyacusis?
200
One who specializes in hearing disorders and treatment
Who is an audiologist?
300
Combining form meaning old age
What is presby/o?
300
Eardrum
What is the tympanic membrane?
300
Abnormal drainage from the ear
What is otorrhea?
300
Buildup of earwax in the external auditory canal
What is a cerumen impaction?
300
Surgical repair of the tympanic membrane
What is a tympanoplasty?
400
Combining form meaning eardrum
What is tympan/o or myring/o?
400
Also known as the hammer, anvil, and stirrup
What is the malleus, incus, and stapes (ossicles)?
400
Ringing or buzzing sensation in the ears
What is tinnitus?
400
Benign tumor that arises from the auditory nerve
What is an acoustic neuroma?
400
Excision of the stapes
What is stapedectomy?
500
Suffix that means process of viewing
What is -scopy?
500
Winding, twisting channel within the temporal bone
What is the labyrinth?
500
Overly sensitive hearing
What is hyperacusis?
500
Any disease of the ear
What is otopathy?
500
Field of medicine that manages disorders of the ear, nose, and throat
What is otorhinolaryngology?
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