Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Pain in the ear; earache.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Pain in the ear; earache.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) Pain in the ear; earache.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology
earache
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an ache localized in the middle or inner ear
Etymologies
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ot- + -algia
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Examples
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In this case the otalgia belongs to the fourth class of diseases.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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When patients in endemic areas present with fever and rash and have sensorineural hearing loss or otalgia without otoscopic abnormalities, clinicians should suspect scrub typhus and consider empirical antibiotic therapy.
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During his life the subject was complaining for reported ipsilateral otalgia presumably due to nerve compression from the elongated styloid process.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Georgios Paraskevas 2009
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