(n.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Organisms were cultured from 41 (93%) of 44 auriscope earpieces, of which 14 (32%) carried potential pathogens; four (9%) were heavily contaminated.
(2) Of the 85 (81%) general practitioners who responded, 72 (85%) believed that contaminated auriscope earpieces could cause serious infection, 66 (78%) did not clean earpieces between patients, and 70 (82%) thought that patients would mind if they knew that dirty earpieces were used.
(3) To describe the organisms cultured from general practitioners' auriscope earpieces; and to explore general practitioners' perceptions of the possibility of cross infection from contaminated auriscope earpieces and of how their auriscope earpieces are cleaned.
(4) Almost a third of auriscope earpieces were contaminated by pathogenic bacteria.
(5) Microbiological survey of auriscope earpieces in two general practices and a semistructured questionnaire sent to 105 general practitioners.
Otoscope
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Observations were recorded by three distinctly different methods of measurement: the surgeon, the MD-2 Impedance Analyzer, and the Acoustic Otoscope immediately before and after induction of anesthesia.
(2) In addition, otoscopic accuracy is a prerequisite to optimal patient care.
(3) The clinical signs and symptoms (hypoacusis, conduction deafness) and the otoscopic and rhinoscopic findings of treated patients improved.
(4) An attempt has been made to correlate the otoscopic profile with the extent of disease, osteitic damage and co-existing complications.
(5) Office otoscopes should be maintained properly to ensure optimal performance.
(6) It correctly identified conductive loss or otoscopic abnormality only slightly better than chance57% to 66% of the time.
(7) Based on this study, a more aggressive canal down tympanomastoid approach is advocated for children presenting with this otoscopic profile.
(8) Newborns have been examined with an otoscope and two different kinds of nasal lesions have been considered: (1) pyramid deformation with septum dislocation and columella deviation; (2) deviation and subluxation of the septum.
(9) We compared acoustic reflectometry with over 4,000 tympanometric and otoscopic examinations in 451 children who were examined at regular intervals following surgery for chronic otitis media with effusion.
(10) The sound-generating otoscope was found to agree 92.4% of the time.
(11) On ear, nose, and throat (ENT) otoscopic examination, the incidence of middle ear disease requiring treatment was 12%.
(12) A comparison between subjects with unrepaired and repaired palates revealed a similar rate of otoscopically normal ears in subjects older than 10 years of age.
(13) The otoscopic findings, as reported by the primary physician and otolaryngologist, were compared with the results of tympanometry.
(14) Validation of otoscopic diagnostic accuracy is an important aspect of medical education and is necessary to substantiate clinical research observations.
(15) These include misidentification of the tube as a foreign body or a dislocated ossicle, misidentification of debris or normal ossicles as a tympanostomy tube, confirmation of the presence of a tube not seen on otoscopic evaluation, stimulation of careful search for cholesteatoma, and documentation of intervention.
(16) Pressure recordings were made in a series of examinations with the pneumatic otoscope using the ear microscope.
(17) Otoscopic findings indicated that external ear canal differences cannot completely account for tympanometric differences between young infants and adults.
(18) They must apply all the facilities at their disposal in order to correlate the otoscopic clinical findings with the magnitude and type of hearing loss.
(19) Using acoustic otoscope reflectivity (AOR) units 4 through 9 to indicate pathologic ears, its sensitivity and specificity were found to be 93.14% and 83%, respectively.
(20) Hearing levels and otoscopic evaluations were obtained retrospectively from medical records.