What's the difference between auriscope and otoscope?

Auriscope


Definition:

  • (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.

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