CF
Audi/o
What is hearing?
Suffix for the record; radiographic image
What is -gram?
pain in the ear
What is otalgia?
Define myringotomy
What is incision into the tympanic membrane (eardrum)?
(graphic) record of hearing
What is audiogram?
Aur/i
What is ear?
The term for abbreviation AOM
Define mastoiditis
What is inflammation of the mastoid bone?
Define aural
What is pertaining to the ear?
What is otoscope?
middle ear
What is tympan/o?
BPPV
What is benign paroxysmal positional vertigo?
inflammation of the outer ear
What is otitis externa (OE)?
The term that means pertaining to the vestibule and cochlea
What is vestibulocochlear?
Define tympanometry
What is the measurement of the middle ear (function)?
Combining form for eardrum (tympanic membrane)
What is myring/o?
-sclerosis
What is hardening?
sense that either one's own body or the environment is revolving
What is vertigo?
surgical repair (of the hearing mechanism) of the middle ear (including tympanic membrane and ossicles)
What is tympanoplasty?
Define audiometry
What is the measurement of hearing?
Combining form for Stapes
What is staped/o?
Suffix meaning abnormal condition
What is -osis?
Chronic disease of the inner ear characterized by a sensation of spinning motion, ringing in the ear, aural fullness, and fluctuating hearing loss
What is Meniere disease?
surgically inserted electronic device that converts sound into electrical impulses
What is cochlear implant?
The term used for the process of recording the electrical activity of the cochlea (in response to sound)
What is electrocochleography?