Outer Ear

Disorders

100

Pinna is very small in size

What is microtia?

200

Pinna is entirely absent

What is anotia?

300

Infection that occurs in the skin of the EAM

What is external otitis?

400

Lack of canalization

What is atresia?

500

Most common form of skin cancer

What is basal cell carcinoma? 

Name That Piercing

100

Slide 1

What is lobe?

200

Slide 2

What is helix?

300

Slide 3

What is tragus?

400

Slide 4

What is triangular fossa?

500

Slide 5

What is cavum concha?

Ear Wax

100

Produced by modified sweat glands in the lateral two thirds of the ear canal

What is cerumen?

200

Low pressure vacuum to gently extract cerumen from EC

What is suction?

300

Squirting body temperature water into the EC

What is irrigation?

400

Tools used to remove cerumen in EC

What is curettes?

500

A chemical substance to soften cerumen safely

What is cerumenolytic? 

Disorders Pt. 2

100

Narrowing of the EAC that can be clogged by earwax/debris

What is stenosis?

200

Fungal external ear infection

What is otomycosis?

300

Bony growth covered by cartilage

What is exostosis?

400

Thickening of the ear drum

What is tymanosclerosis?

500

Benign firm overgrowth of tissue

What is keloid?

Name That Foreign Object

100

Slide 6

What is cockroach?

200

Slide 7

What is tissue?

300

Slide 8

What is earring back?

400

Slide 9

What is popcorn kernel?

500

Slide 10

What is eraser?