A 28-year-old female Congo African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus erithacus) was presented to the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH) at the University of California, Davis, for scratching the left side of its face, a mass in the left external
auditory meatus, and cessation of vocalization.
Post-traumatic cholesteatoma of the external
auditory meatus: 2 case reports.
Position of dorsal rim of auditory meatus--approaches squamosal suture to within width of
auditory meatus (1); separated from it by at least the width of the meatus (2).
Due to its funnel like structure, the outer ear acts to collect sounds and direct them into the external
auditory meatus. This is that approximately one inch long ear canal where wax collects or ear plugs are inserted.
The external landmarks that approximate the foremen are varyingly described as the center of the head, the outer canthus of the eye or the external
auditory meatus. Secondly, the nurse must adjust the primary collection system to the prescribed height above the zero point.
Summary Owing to the severity of its corrosive effects, an alkaline hearing-aid battery in the external
auditory meatus is an otological emergency.
Partial occlusion of the external
auditory meatus: Its effect upon air and bone conduction hearing acuity.
Toynbee, "A specimen of molluscum contagiosum developed in the external
auditory meatus," London Medical Gazette, vol.
Preventing collapsed of external
auditory meatus during audiometry.
Ear plugs are the ear inserts which occlude external
auditory meatus when fitted in it.
Permeatal/trans-canal approach is commonly used in wide external
auditory meatus with small to medium sized perforations.
A plug of tenacious supparative material which partially occluded the
auditory meatus was seen whenever mites were present.