Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Pain in the ear; earache.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. earache
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Pain in the ear; earache.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Pain in the ear; earache.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an ache localized in the middle or inner ear
Etymologies
ot- + -algia (Wiktionary)
Examples
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In this case the otalgia belongs to the fourth class of diseases.
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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.
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