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Otalgia (Ear Pain) Causes and Treatment Otalgia is the medical term for ear pain. Learn about different causes of ear pain and how these conditions are diagnosed. Otalgia is the medical term for ear pain. There are two types of otalgia: primary and secondary. Primary otalgia is ear pain caused by a problem directly associated to the ear, such as an ear infection. Ear infections are probably the most common cause of ear pain in children. In adults, however, ear infections are not as common a reason for experiencing ear pain. Secondary otalgia is ear pain that actually comes from another source in the body.
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Neuralgia Neuralgia (Greek neuron, nerve + algos, pain) is pain in the distribution of a nerve or nerves, as in intercostal neuralgia, trigeminal neuralgia, and glossopharyngeal neuralgia.
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Myalgia Myalgia, or muscle pain, is a symptom of many diseases and disorders. The most common causes are the overuse or over-stretching of a muscle or group of muscles. Myalgia without a traumatic history is often due to viral infections. Longer-term myalgias may be indicative of a metabolic myopathy, some nutritional deficiencies or chronic fatigue syndrome.
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antitragus an·ti·tra·gus. A projection of the cartilage of the auricle, in front of the tail of the helix, just above the lobule, and posterior to the tragus from which it is separated by the intertragic notch. [G. anti-tragos, the eminence of the external ear, fr. anti, opposite, + tragos, a goat, the tragus].
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Causes of the Mystery Ear Pain (Otalgia) There are many possible causes of pain in or around the ear although most patients and even physicians can think of only a few causes. Those causes being allergies, earwax or ear infection, whether it be a middle ear infection (otitis media) or Swimmer's ear (otitis externa).ndeed, this particular cause of otalgia is due to Cranial Nerve 5 that transmits pain involving the jaw to the ear itself. Sometimes the pain/discomfort is due to a non-biologic trigger, like cell phone use (read more about this here). There are many other examples of non-ear causes of otalgia.
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Definition of Ergotherapy Definition of Ergotherapy. Ergotherapy Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries. Wikipedia Dictionaries. English Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia. Occupational therapy (OT) is the use of assessment and treatment to develop, recover, or maintain the daily living and work skills of people with a physical, mental, or cognitive disorder.
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- Medical Dictionary. algolagnia. play. noun al·go·lag·nia \ˌal-gō-ˈlag-nē-ə\. Medical Definition of algolagnia. : a perversion (as masochism or sadism) in which pleasure and especially sexual gratification is obtained by inflicting or suffering pain.
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- Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Apologia. Apologia is the first album from Sajama Cut. This album was mostly done only by Thee and a drummer, making it more of a solo-oriented album than a complete band product.
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Otalgia (Ear Pain) Causes and Treatment What Is Otalgia. Otalgia is the medical term for ear pain. There are two types of otalgia: primary and secondary. Primary otalgia is ear pain caused by a problem directly associated to the ear, such as an ear infection. Ear infections are probably the most common cause of ear pain in children.
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Acute Otitis Media Otalgia without hearing loss or fever is observed in adults with external otitis media, dental abscess, or pain referred from the temporomandibular joint. Orthodontic appliances often elicit referred pain as the dental occlusion is altered. See Clinical Presentation for more detail.
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Otalgia Some of the symptoms of Otalgia incude: 1  Ear pain. 2  Earache. 3  Some possible ear pain symptoms in infants: Pulling at ears - infants will often tug or pull their ears if they have ear pain. Tugging at the ears.
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otolaryngology The branch of medicine that deals with diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the ear, nose, and throat. Also called otorhinolaryngology.
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- (Redirected from Mastalgia) Breast pain (also known as breast tenderness, mastodynia, mammalgia, and mastalgia from the Greek μαστός mastos, breast and ἄλγος algos, pain) is a medical symptom. Pain and discomfort may range from minor to severely incapacitating.
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Auditory tube - Medical Definition Medical Definition of Auditory tube Auditory tube: The tube that runs from the middle ear to the pharynx, also known as the Eustachian tube. The function of this tube is to protect, aerate and drain the middle ear (and mastoid). Occlusion of the Eustachian tube leads to the development of middle ear inflammation (otitis media). This tube is also called the otopharyngeal tube (because it connects the ear to the pharynx) and in medical Latin it is the tuba acustica, tuba auditiva, or tuba auditoria.
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Otalgia Primary otalgia is a symptom of another ear disease condition like external otitis, viral myringitis, acute otitis media and mastoiditis. The second type is called referred otalgia, where the ear pain sensation originates from other parts of the body, excluding the ears.
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- Muscle pain (myalgia) are pulling, gut-wrenching and spasmodic pain in the muscles: the term myalgia is composed of the Greek words myos for muscle and algos for pain. Muscle pain can spread (diffuse) or (local) occur in a certain place of the body.
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- Medical Definition of fibromyalgia. : a chronic disorder characterized by widespread pain, tenderness, and stiffness of muscles and associated connective tissue structures that is typically accompanied by fatigue, headache, and sleep disturbances—called also fibromyalgia syndrome, fibromyositis.
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- The cause of primary otalgia is usually apparent on examination; the most common causes are otitis media and otitis externa. The cause of secondary otalgia is often difficult to determine because the innervation of the ear is complex and there are many potential sources of referred pain.
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otitis (Medicine) inflammation of the ear, esp the middle ear (otitis media), with pain, impaired hearing, etc, or the outer ear (otitis externa), with inflammation between the ear drum and the external opening. See also labyrinthitis.
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- Myalgia is not a medical disorder or disease but more of a symptom of an existing underlying condition. Myalgia is known as a muscle ache or muscle pain. It is a common condition that almost everyone has had at one time or another.
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- The minor signs and symptoms are hyposmia, fever, halitosis, headache, dental pain, cough, and otalgia. Criteria include: refractory otitis externa, severe nocturnal otalgia and purulent otorrhea associated with Pseudomonas infection and granulation tissue in an immunocompromised or diabetic patient.
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- Otalgia is the medical term meaning ear pain or earache.
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What is occipital neuralgia? A answered. Occipital neuralgia is a distinct type of headache characterized by piercing, throbbing, or electric-shock-like chronic pain in the upper neck, back of the head, and behind the ears, usually on one side of the head. Typically, the pain begins in the neck and then spreads upward.
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Migraine Migraine is a neurological disease characterized by recurrent moderate to severe headaches often in association with a number of autonomic nervous system symptoms. The word is derived from the Greek ἡμικρανία (hemikrania), pain on one side of the head, from ἡμι- (hemi-), half, and κρανίον (kranion), skull.he pain is generally made worse by physical activity. Up to one-third of people with migraine headaches perceive an aura: a transient visual, sensory, language, or motor disturbance which signals that the headache will soon occur.
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Otitis externa Otitis externa, also known as swimmer's ear, is an inflammation of the ear canal. It often presents with ear pain, swelling of the ear canal, and occasionally decreased hearing. Typically there is pain with movement of the outer ear. A high fever is typically not present except in severe cases.