Skin is the soft outer tissue covering vertebrates. Other animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton have different developmental origin, structure and chemical composition. The adjective cutaneous means of the skin (from Latin cutis, skin).
Sorry to hear about your problem. The numbness in the ear can be due to variety of reasons. Some of them are. Diabetes. Peripheral neuropathy. Sensory nerve trauma. Ear infection. Cold. Cerebro vascular accident. Ear injury etc. As there is no history of trauma, so ear injury and sensory nerve trauma can be ruled out. Diabetes can be detected by undergoing a blood glucose test. This numbness can be caused by a preceding throat infection which can result in ear infection leading to numbness.
So what triggered the leap from hearing loss to incapacitating dizziness in Miller's case? The etiology is unknown, Miller says, pointing to the possibility of a virus or inner-ear inflammation. Tumors are another cause, says Nevin, along with specific conditions such as Meniere's disease or benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, the latter of which is the most common. In BPPV, which is diagnosed with a simple clinical test, particles in the inner ear dislodge and cause the spinning sensation when one rolls over in bed or bends. I can't remove the particles, but I can help them go back in place, says Nevin.