What's the difference between ontologist and otologist?
Ontologist
Definition:
(n.) One who is versed in or treats of ontology.
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Otologist
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in otology; an aurist.
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(1) The radical mastoid cavity can be troublesome and odoriferous, may require frequent visits to an otologist, and may interfere with swimming and showering.
(2) Acquiring adequate, safe and painless local anesthesia of the tympanic membrane for the purpose of myringotomy with or without insertion of a middle ear ventilating tube has been a challenge for the otologist.
(3) Right temporal craniotomy was carried out on October, 1972, but no pathological findings on the anterior surface of the petrous bone was detected, so, the right middle ear bottom was packed with fascia graft by otologist, which stopped the CSF otorrhea for seven months.
(4) Comprehensive efficacious neuroimaging of the vestibular pathways requires cooperation and coordinated efforts between the otologist and the neuroradiologist to avoid duplication of expensive and sometimes invasive study.
(5) A recent study indicated poorer results for stapes surgery performed by residents than results obtained by practicing otologists.
(6) Lessons and observations taught many years ago by earlier otologists may give us valuable leads.
(7) Although acknowledged as separate entities in the neurologic literature, central neurofibromatosis and peripheral neurofibromatosis, which is also known as von Recklinghausen's disease, have not been commonly distinguished by otologists as two separate diseases.
(8) The use of ECoG among otologists and audiologists has increased in recent years, primarily due to the availability of relatively easily applied, noninvasive extratympanic electrodes.
(9) Our findings suggest that otologists should bear in mind this disease in patients with chronic suppurative otitis and accompanying suspected symptoms.
(10) For local treatment in the ear they should be used only in difficult cases and exclusively by the otologist.
(11) The acute onset of vertigo is a common clinical problem presenting to primary care physicians or otologists for evaluation.
(12) When otologists note an abnormal appearance behind a normal tympanic membrane, with or without symptoms, tympanotomy should be done due to the possibility of congenital middle ear cholesteatoma.
(13) An otologist was denounced and the patient's case history was confiscated because after tonsillectomy an absecess and a thrombosis of the vena jugularis interna had developed.
(14) Austria's new legislation on the protection of employees and workers provides that the determination and assessment of noise-induced hearing defects caused at the working places may now also be carried out by physicians who are not otologists.
(15) Various surgical approaches to the petrous apex for exposure and drainage of suppurative processes are available to the otologist.
(16) The incidences of deafness and exudative otitis media were much higher in the group where each child was seen by an otologist and hearing tested by audiogram.
(17) The procedure is without the hazards of the intravenous injection of lidocaine, and can be done by every otologist, even in clinic practice.
(18) The otologist must be wary of it since the growth of the cholesteatoma resulting from a temporal bone fracture can be undetected for years allowing for invasive and extensive growth.
(19) Otologists may be reluctant to perform labyrinthectomy in unilateral Menière's disease, fearing the later development of bilateral disease and severe hearing loss in the previously normal ear.
(20) To determine contemporary thinking regarding initial counseling of hearing-impaired adults 500 questionnaires were mailed to otologists and otolaryngologists and 500 to clinical audiologists.