What's the difference between otologist and otology?
Otologist
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in otology; an aurist.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Otology
Definition:
(n.) The branch of science which treats of the ear and its diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is felt that otologic surgery should be done before the pinna reconstruction as it is very important to try and introduce sound into these children at an early age.
(2) 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).
(3) Prior to iontophoresis a complete audiologic, neuro-otologic and x-ray examination of the temporal bones was performed.
(4) Questionnaires assessing symptoms, disability and handicap, predisposition to anxiety, and current anxiety and depression were completed by 127 people attending neuro-otology clinics with a major complaint of vertigo or dysequilibrium.
(5) We used light microscopy to study 87 human temporal bones (from 47 cases) with no known otological disorders, and found that certain cases had sclerotic changes around the endolymphatic duct and sac.
(6) Exclusion criteria included history of chronic otitis media, recent antibiotic therapy, immunosuppressive illnesses, or prior otologic surgery.
(7) Otologic symptoms were infrequent, occurring only with temporal bone involvement.
(8) The results of 40 audiograms from otologically normal long-term underground train drivers were compared with the predicted values published by the National Physical Laboratory tables (Robinson and Shipton, 1977).
(9) The usefulness of labetalol, a new combined alpha and beta adrenoceptor antagonist as a hypotensive agent in otological operations was studied in 18 otherwise healthy patients.
(10) The compensatory process of vestibular neuronitis in 7 patients was followed up and evaluated using the Combined Galvanic Test (CGT) and other neuro-otological data.
(11) Autologous fibrin tissue adhesive is currently the most promising adhesive for otologic use with respect to strength and biocompatibility without the risk of transmissable disease that is of concern with the commercially prepared fibrin adhesive.
(12) We reviewed clinical findings in 740 patients over age 65 who consulted the Otological Medical Group, Inc., during a one-year period for dizziness.
(13) One hundred twenty-nine skull base operations were performed in 126 patients at the Otology Group, Nashville, Tenn., from January 1970 through May 1987.
(14) The Ménière's triad appeared in these patients six months to twenty nine years after the initial otologic or systemic lesion.
(15) The average respondent performed 4.6 fistula explorations among 197 otologic surgeries (some of these were myringotomies) per year.
(16) Otologic surgeons consider the action of sound pressure on the cochlear windows to be of major importance in certain cases of middle-ear pathology, yet previously published network models of mammalian middle ears do not include such a mechanism.
(17) The electrical recordings from the auditory nerve can, in combination with standard audiological, otological and neurological examinations, present a more accurate picture of the patient's condition.
(18) The head shaking test (HST) is an important test in neuro-otological diagnosis.
(19) We may conclude from our results that MR does not create any otological risks for patients with these prostheses in that none of them were dislocated during exposure.
(20) Further research is required to determine the efficacy of otologic homograft sterilization techniques against HIV and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.