NOUN
- either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane
How To Use external auditory canal In A Sentence
- Inflammation or infection of external auditory canal and auricle.
- Contact dermatitis, irritant or allergic, can involve the pinna as well as the external auditory canal.
- If the cerumen is difficult to remove, a ceruminolytic agent such as Cerumenex or even a simple 4 percent baking soda solution should be used in the office to soften the cerumen first to avoid traumatizing the external auditory canal.
- Otitis externa usually is caused by water stagnating in the external auditory canal.
- In skin of external auditory canal , there are multilayer applanation - keratinocyte, epidermis, collagen fibrils, collagenoblast and leukomonocyte.
- -- The principal medicinal use of this plant in the Philippines is the introduction of the hot juice of its fleshy leaves into the external auditory canal in cases of otorrhoea or of simple earache, whatever its cause. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
- An otoscope should be used to examine the external auditory canal for cerumen, foreign bodies, and abnormalities of the canal skin.
- the external auditory canal
- Once the external auditory canal has been cleansed as much as possible and a wick inserted if swelling is severe, topical antibacterial therapy should be started.
- This is particularly important for patients with unusually viscous cerumen, a narrowed external auditory canal or systemic allergies, especially in those who are immunosuppressed.
