Otic polyp Otic polyp An otic polyp (also called aural polyp) is a benign proliferation of chronic inflammatory cells associated with granulation tissue, in response to a longstanding inflammatory process of the middle ear. Patients usually present with otorrhea, conductive hearing loss, and otalgia, while bleeding and a sensation of a mass are much less common. Although imaging is not required to yield a diagnosis, it may be obtained to exclude other disorders, such as a concurrent cholesteatoma. By gross description, there is usually a solitary, polypoid, reddish mass behind an intact ear drum (typmanic membrane). The tissue is often friable, measuring
Bodyworks Voyager: Missions in Anatomy Bodyworks Voyager: Missions in Anatomy Bodyworks Voyager is an educational computer game and action shooter for MS-DOS released in 1994. It was developed by Mythos Software, Inc. and published by Software Marketing Corporation. The game teaches human anatomy, and involves a first-person shooter style component as well as quizzes on the human body. Besides exploring the multiple layers and parts of the human body within the Medical Database, the prime objective of the game is to destroy all infecting microbes in a hospital patient by use of a fighter ship reduced by shrink ray and inserted into the body. All