What's the difference between earache and otalgia?
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.
Otalgia
Definition:
(n.) Pain in the ear; earache.
Example Sentences:
(1) Otalgia and otorrhea responded at a mean of 6 and 4 days, respectively, following the initiation of therapy.
(2) The patient, a 13-year-old boy, presented with a complaint of persistent otalgia.
(3) Thus, there is a need for more careful examination of the ear in all cases of acute otalgia.
(4) Sucralfate significantly lowered postoperative throat pain, otalgia, and trismus.
(5) Hearing loss (sensorineural, conductive, or mixed), otalgia, otorrhea, and even gross tissue extrusion herald this condition.
(6) The man had noticed severe otalgia and sudden progressive deafness of the right ear approximately 2 weeks prior to admission.
(7) The authors report the case of an eight-year-old girl hospitalised for severe headache with paroxysmal left otalgia, vomiting, aprexia, paralysis of the left 6 th cranial nerve and slight left facial weakness.
(8) A 69-year-old man presented with a three-month history of otalgia and tenderness of the right ear and a one-week history of a painful right parotid swelling.
(9) Only 4 of the 22 mothers (18%) with crying infants attributed the crying to ear pain, yet the findings support the explanation of otalgia due to inadequate middle ear ventilation.
(10) A 42-year-old man presented with a two-week history of right-sided otalgia, deafness and nocturnal tinnitus.
(11) Middle ear effusion as shown by tympanometry was not associated with a previous history of otitis media in the child but was associated with recent symptoms of respiratory infection or otalgia.
(12) The clinical features of facial nerve neuromas (schwannomas) depend on their location and include facial nerve weakness or paralysis, otalgia or facial pain, hearing loss or imbalance, and loss of taste sensation.
(13) EAP serves as a most helpful additional treatment in cases of frontal sinusitis, various kinds of neuralgia, cervical otalgia, as well as sialoses of obscure or chronic genesis.
(14) Five days before admission, she experienced right otalgia and right facial pain and consulted an otolaryngologist of our hospital, who diagnosed the illness as acute parotitis and laryngopharyngitis.
(15) The apparatus of own design was applied also for analgesia for operations on the middle ear through the external meatus, and in the treatment of ear buzzing and otalgia of unknown origin.
(16) The clinical perilymph fistula (PF) syndrome can consist of any combination of the following: tinnitus, deafness, phonophobia, vertigo, ataxia, otalgia, facial palsy, headache, diplopia, blackouts, psychological distress.
(17) The salient features of the disease are: unilateral protracted otalgia and purulent otorrhea in an elderly patient.
(18) Of these 32 per cent had otalgia and 31 per cent reported episodes of aural discharge.
(19) Morbidity included persistent minor hypesthesia in five patients, persistent minor dysesthesias in three, persistent minor weakness in three, aseptic meningitis in one, transient sixth nerve palsy in one, and transient otalgia in three.
(20) Otic pneumocystosis typically presents as a unilateral polypoid mass, and it is clinically manifested as otalgia, hearing loss, or, sometimes, otorrhea without evidence of current respiratory disease or previous Pneumocystis pneumonia.