And the band played on...
Be careful, it's sharp!
Home Sweet Home
Hush, Hush, thought I heard you calling my name...
OHHH, Listen to the music...
100
It is used to compress purified porcine skin for use as packing in middle ear procedure. (Sometime soaked in Thrombin)
What is a House Gelfoam Masher?
100
It is used to incise the tympanic membrane for removal of fluid or insertion of aeration tubes.
What is a Myringotomy Knife?
100
Also called a gimmick, it is used for manipulating and dissecting tissue and and ear canal, such as elevating the annulus of the tympanic membrane.
What is a House Elevator?
100
The cartilaginous structure covered by skin.
What is the auricle(pinna)?
100
It is the neural interpretation of sound transmission.
What is hearing?
200
You may be asked to tap on osteotomes, tamps, chisels, gouges, and other specially designed instruments with this.
What is a Cottle Mallet
200
It is used to remove tissue and ossicles from the middle ear. It has an oval working tip.
What is an Oval Cup Forceps (Micro-cup, Ear-cup Forceps)?
200
It is used for incising and dissecting tissue in the ear canal and middle ear, such as creating a tympanic flap, incising the canal during tympanoplasty, or separating the incus from the stapes during a stapedectomy. (Also called a flap knife).
What is a House Joint Knife?
200
It extends from the TM to the medial wall of the cleft.
What is the middle ear?
200
It also serves as a barrier between the external and middle ear.
What is the tympanic membrane?
300
It is used to flatten the septal cartilage prior to reinsertion.
what is the Cottle Bone Crusher?
300
They are used to remove diseased bone and tissue during a mastoidectomy.
What are Spratt mastoid Curettes?
300
It is double ended with cutting cups of different sizes at the ends.
What is a House Double-ended Curette?
300
The incus, malleus, and stapes.
What are the ossicles?
300
It is the most lateral of the ossicles.
What is the malleus?
400
It is used to measure the ossicles in middle ear for repair or replacement, especially the stapes.
What is the House Strut Caliper?
400
It is used for reshaping the ossicles, especially the malleus, for ossicular reconstruction.
What is a House-Dieter Malleus Nipper?
400
It is used to manipulate the soft tissue graft over the oval window during the stapedectomy.
What is a House Oval Window Pick?
400
It is formed by the temporal bone and filled with peri-lymph fluid.
What is the bony labyrinth?
400
They communicate with the middle ear via the oval and round windows.
What are the semicircular canals?
500
It is used for removing tonsils and adenoids. It uses radiofrequency energy to excite the electrons in a conductive medium, creating a precisely focused plasma.The plasma breaks molecular bonds within the tissue causing it to dissolve.
What is a Coblation Wand?
500
It has a long handle with a rounded, angled tip. It is used for removing tissue and bone from the ear canal and middle ear.
What is a House-Sheeny Knife Curette.
500
It is used to manipulate the ossicles and tissue in the middle ear. It has a long handle and a blunt 90 degree hooked tip.
What is a House Hough?
500
It is the organ of Hearing.
What is the organ of Corti?
500
It is responsible for the equilibrium of the body in motion (dynamic equilibrium).
What is the crista ampullaris?
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