earwick [ēr´wik]
a strip of gauze inserted into the external ear canal so that medicated drops applied to the outside pass along it and into the canal; used when the canal is obstructed by edema so that ear drops cannot be instilled.
Earwick for instillation of antibiotics into the edematous external canal. From Ignatavicius and Workman, 2002.
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