(n.) The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of a variety of ceruminolytics were tested in vitro on standard spheres of normal human cerumen.
(2) Lack of cerumen (70%) chronic otitis (30%) previous antibiotic therapy and eczema (25%) were the most outstanding predispondent factors.
(3) Sodium Bicarbonate ear-drops BP are used by the nurses in the department and are recommended in the British National Formulary as the most effective solution to soften cerumen prior to syringing.
(4) As polyunsaturated fatty acids have better antibacterial properties than saturated fatty acids, the cerumen of seven patients with recurrent otitis externa and seven unaffected subjects was analysed to determine their ratio.
(5) An analysis of variance for repeated measures on hearing was computed to test for the effect of removing cerumen from individuals who had neither, one or both ears occluded.
(6) Chinese and Japanese women with dry-type cerumen had a lower percentage of successful aspirations than those with wet type, which suggested that genetic factors may be associated with breast fluid secretion in nonlactating women.
(7) We present data on cerumen types in 23 populations of the USSR also.
(8) A strong association of proliferative epithelial cells and cerumen phenotype was found in parous U.S.-born women (wet = 47.6% vs. dry = 16.0%; p = 0.002).
(9) Excessive cerumen accumulation usually results from misguided attempts to remove wax and may go unnoticed until a hearing loss occurs.
(10) Approximately 3800 cerumen samples collected from 35- to 54-year-old healthy adults in the general populations of 35 counties were analyzed for HCH and DDT.
(11) Cerumen impaction and removal is a very common otologic problem.
(12) Rather results suggest that nurses can make a more accurate diagnosis merely by knowing the patient's age, self-rating of hearing, and checking ear canals for impacted cerumen.
(13) Routine otoscopic examinations should be performed on the former group to ameliorate loss of hearing due to impacted cerumen.
(14) Jet irrigation is an accepted method for removal of cerumen from the external auditory canal.
(15) It is suggested that the increase of dry or unclassifiable cerumen in white women represents a change in the expressivity of alleles that determine cerumen type occurring with advancing age in women who are heterozygous for the trait.
(16) We recommend vision testing for refractive error; inspection of the skin surface for fungal infection and skin cancer, drug eruptions, and xerosis; a history for symptoms of xerosis; audiometric testing for presbycusis; surveys for hearing loss; otoscopic inspection for cerumen impaction; dental examination for caries; measurement of blood pressure for hypertension; and breast examination and mammography for cancer.
(17) A higher proportion of U.S.-born Asian women with wet cerumen than women with dry cerumen had proliferative epithelial cells in NAF: 39.3% vs. 20.0% (p = 0.08).
(18) Improved hearing scores were obtained in 75.0% of the ears after the impacted cerumen was removed, with subjects hearing from one to three more tones per ear on the second hearing test.
(19) Three hundred forty five adult arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) from all counties in Iceland were examined for excess cerumen and ear canker mites (Otodectes cynotis).
(20) We have clearly demonstrated that a cerumen plug consists of keratin arising from the migratory epithelium of the deep external auditory canal and epithelium of the superficial external auditory canal.
Ceruminous
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tumors of ceruminous gland origin appear to have a distinctive clinical behavior by virtue of their unique anatomical location in the external auditory canal.
(2) It is suggested that the term hidradenoma be used for tumours of the ceruminous glands and that they be classified histologically as (1) adenoma, (2) pleomorphic adenoma, (3) adenoid cystic carcinoma and (4) adenocarcinoma.
(3) Morphological differences between secretory cells of the wet and dry types of human ceruminous glands were examined.
(4) The term "ceruminal adenoma or adenocarcinoma" is still used by many authors.
(5) Earwax is a mixture of desquamated keratinocytes and hair combined with the secretions of both the ceruminous and the sebaceous glands of the external ear canal.
(6) Ceruminoma is a collective term applied to tumors arising from the modified apocrine (ceruminous) glands of the external auditory canal.
(7) Three histological forms of benign ceruminous gland tumours are recognised: the myoepitheliomatous, cribriform and mixed salivary type.
(8) We report a case in which primary papillary adenocarcinoma developed in the middle ear, possibly due to aberrant ceruminous gland elements.
(9) A 55 years old woman with a neoplasm originating in ceruminous glands of the external auditory canal, with temporal bone and intracranial invasion, mimicking a glomus jugulare tumor.
(10) There were five soft tissue changes: the formation of a secondary cholesteatoma, ulceration of the lining epithelium with resorption of the underlying bone, thickened epithelium in the canal as well as in the tympanic membrane, subepithelial fibrosis, and atrophic ceruminous glands.
(11) Primary tumors arising from the glandular structures of the external auditory canal (EAC) are rare, with the majority arising from the ceruminous glands.
(12) The present work describes a case of primitive ceruminous adenoma of the middle ear (6 cases have been reported in the literature) discovered during exploratory tympanotomy performed on a presumed otitis media which had not responded to medical treatment.
(13) The use of such terms as 'ceruminoma' and 'hidradenoma' should finally be abandoned, and 'ceruminous gland tumour' used instead as a generic term.
(14) Histologically, one tumour was a ceruminous adenoma and the other a rare ceruminous mixed tumour of borderline malignancy.
(15) A case of adenoid cystic carcinoma of a ceruminous gland in the external auditory meatus, treated by local excision, is presented.
(16) These morphological changes were accompanied by a secretory stimulation on the ceruminous glands which was slight in the low-dose dogs but in the majority of the high-dose dogs reached a degree that was followed by secondary acute infectious inflammation.
(17) Therapy of the ceruminous adenomas is wide excision; the treatment of carcinoma is radical block resection.
(18) A case of an adenocarcinoma of ceruminous glands located on the external auditory meatus is presented.
(19) The otitis externa was mainly a chronic proliferative inflammation characterised by hyperkeratinization, hyperplasia of the sebaceous and ceruminous glands, fibrosis and infiltration with plasma cells, lymphocytes and macrophages, often containing ceroid pigment.
(20) The results of the investigation carried out in parallel on seven human exocrine glands (pancreas, parotid gland, submandibular gland, lacrimal gland, ceruminous gland, ampulla of the vas deferens, and seminal vesicle) allow an immediate evaluation of the method and a comparative analysis of the cytologic organization of secreting cells of human exocrine glands.