Category: O

A medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the ear, nose, and throat. The study of diseases of the ear and throat. Surgical specialty dealing with diseases of the ears, nose, throat, and upper respiratory tract. Sometimes called ENT (ears, nose, and throat). The science, academic study, and medical practice of…

Pertaining to diseases of the ear and respiratory passages.  

An abnormal development of the head of a fetus. A congenital absence of the lower jaw and fusion or near fusion of the ears on the front of the neck.  

A small opening, especially one of entrance into a hollow organ or canal. An opening into a passage. Ostia, opening (e.g., ostium appendicis vermiformis, opening be¬ tween the appendix and the large intestine). An opening. The ostium abdominale is the opening of the fallopian tube into the abdominal cavity.  

A practitioner who diagnoses and treats disease. A health professional with the degree of doctor of osteopathy, or D.O., who has trained in and is licensed to perform general medicine and surgery, including use of drugs, but who works within the system of osteopathic medicine, which sees the body’s nerve-muscle-skeletal network as key to health…

A field of medicine emphasizing diagnosing and treating structural problems through manipulating the musculoskeletal system. Practitioners receive much the same training and perform similar functions as medical doctors. A branch of medicine that focuses on the interactive relationships among the many body systems and the shifting balance among them as it relates to a person’s…

An inflammatory process of bone and cartilage about a joint. Degeneration of the epiphyses. Inflammation of a bone associated with pain: the deposition of abnormal bony tissue seen on X-ray. The cause is not known and the condition is frequently self-limiting, though permanent deformity of the affected bone may result. Treatment is with analgesics. Inflammation…

Any disease involving-the bones and joints. A disease of the bone and cartilage at a joint, particularly the ankles, knees or wrists, associated with carcinoma of the bronchi. Any disease of the bone and cartilage adjoining a joint. Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is characterized by the formation of new bony tissue and occurs as a complication of…

One of the small bones of the tympanum of the ear, malleus, incus, or stapes. Small bone. The auditory ossicles are the three small bones (incus, stapes, and malleus) of the middle ear that transmit sound vibrations from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear. Three tiny bones in each ear: malleus, incus, and stapes;…

The three small bones of the middle ear (malleus, incus, and stapes) that transmit vibrations to the inner ear.