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.

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  • 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

  • In this case the otalgia belongs to the fourth class of diseases.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • 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.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

  • 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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