Miller keane encyclopedia and dictionary of medicine nursing and allied health seventh edition.
Attic ear definition.
The attic is just above the eardrum.
A cholesteatoma is an abnormal noncancerous skin growth that can develop in the middle section of your ear behind the eardrum.
It is separated from the external ear by the tympanic membrane and from the inner ear by the medial wall of the tympanic cavity.
Is required to the head.
At ik a small upper space of the middle ear containing the head of the malleus and the body of the incus.
Cholesteatomas caused by ear infections are the most common kind.
The upper part of the tympanic cavity of the ear.
A room or rooms in an attic.
Psoriatic arthritis is a form of arthritis that affects some people who have psoriasis a condition that features red patches of skin topped with silvery scales.
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Medical definition of attic.
The small upper space of the middle ear called also epitympanic recess.
This may result in a temporal bone fracture allowing leakage of cerebrospinal fluid into the middle ear space.
If untreated a cholesteatoma can eat into the three small bones located in the middle ear the malleus incus and stapes collectively called ossicles which can result in nerve deterioration deafness imbalance and vertigo.
It often develops as a cyst that sheds layers of old skin and may.
An acute traumatic perforation of the tympanic membrane is due to an impact to the head ear or penetration of an object through the ear canal.
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For a perforation to occur a pressure increase of 25 lb sq in.
A low story or decorative wall above an entablature or the main cornice of a building.
Surgical exposure of the epitympanic recess attic and mastoid antrum.
The part of a building especially of a house directly under a roof.
Tympanums tympana is an air filled chamber in the petrous part of the temporal bone.
