(n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only.
(n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.
(n.) Same as Acroterium.
(n.) Same as Crossette.
(n.) Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention.
(v. t.) To take in with the ears; to hear.
(n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.
(v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.
(v. t.) To plow or till; to cultivate.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
(2) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(3) Circuitry has been developed to feed the output of an ear densitogram pickup into one channel of a two-channel Holter monitor.
(4) Bipolar derivations with the maximum PSE always included the locations with the maximum PSE obtained from a linked ears reference.
(5) There were no statistically significant increases in ABR thresholds for irradiated ears vs. control ears.
(6) In the 12 prognostically most favourable ears the cavity was repneumatized.
(7) In the study group 43 (64%) children had a confirmed bacterial AOM and 24 (36%) showed no bacterial growth from middle ear fluid.
(8) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
(9) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
(10) Fascia TM grafts atrophied in 35 of 43 ears (80%), and perichondrium atrophied in 8 of 20 ears (40%).
(11) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
(12) Recurrent respiratory infections occurred in 17 (38%), and chronic recurrent middle ear effusions were noted in 33 (73%).
(13) The observed staining indicated that the epithelium of the external auditory meatus has a pattern of keratin expression typical of epidermis in general and the epithelium of the middle ear resembles simple columnar epithelia.
(14) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
(15) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
(16) Inner Ear Decompression Sickness (IEDCS)--manifested by tinnitus, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, and hearing loss--is usually associated with deep air or mixed gas dives, and accompanied by other CNS symptoms of decompression sickness (DCS).
(17) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
(18) A 56-year-old man was admitted because of left facial palsy and hearing loss of bilateral ears.
(19) Bamu also beat him, taking a pair of pliers and wrenching his ear.
(20) Most symptoms come from the ciliated airways (nose, paranasal sinuses, and bronchs) and from the middle ear.
Earache
Definition:
(n.) Ache or pain in the ear.
Example Sentences:
(1) As compared with younger Rs, older respondents perceived intestinal flu to be relatively less serious-but earache, sprained toe, indigestion, having a tooth filled, stiff neck, and hangover to be relatively more serious.
(2) The traditional ways of treating earache among the Lappish people have been charted.
(3) If I complained of earache, he would whip out his otoscope and peer inside my ear, soon rumbling my deception.
(4) Parents were advised to seek prompt attention if symptoms of earache, fussiness, or fever recurred at any time during the 30-day study period.
(5) The pain most often experienced was less severe than an earache or toothache, more severe than a menstrual pain or headache.
(6) The 4 divers experienced no tinnitus, hard of hearing and earache during compression and decompression.
(7) The frequency and correlates of earache were studied prospectively among 335 consecutive episodes of acute otitis media with effusion (AOME) diagnosed in a suburban pediatric practice.
(8) The appearance of the tumour was heralded by earache and deafness, followed years later by wide local destruction of the temporal and parietal bones, base of skull, facial palsy and multiple distant metastases.
(9) Redness of the completely bulging tympanic membrane was associated with an increased likelihood of earache.
(10) There was also resolution of pharyngeal pain, earache, dysphagia and adenopathy.
(11) Wilson says: "What we desperately need is somewhere else to send urgent care patients to, people with things like earache.
(12) On average, the patients rated the pain as being less than earache or toothache, but more than headache or bachache.
(13) It is furthermore accompanied by statistically valied symptoms like upper respiratory infections, cough, earache, ear discharge, fever, mouth breathing and at times feeding difficulty during infancy and childhood.
(14) In view of the ineffectiveness of the treatments administered (occlusal releasing gutter, antiinflammatory agents) and due to occurrence of severe episodes of earache refractory to conventional analgesics, we request that a CT-scan be obtained to evidence the process invading the pterygopalatine fossa.
(15) The Lappish treatment principles for earache are discussed in relation to modern knowledge of pain relief.
(16) Of note is the fact that the cord palsy of a herpetic lesion can be short-lived and that earache is a common symptom.
(17) In the further course of the illness night sweat, nightly fever up to 38 degrees C and weight loss of 7 kg in two months, as well as severe treatment-resistant earache developed.
(18) Detection of all cases of AOME among young children requires a high index of suspicion, even in the apparent absence of earache.
(19) Earache and itching were reported in 22.5% and 7.0%, respectively, and 7.0% experienced impaired hearing.
(20) Facial pain, earache, headache, difficulty with chewing, and joint noise during mandibular function are symptoms.