myringotomy
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- noun
- /ˌmɪrɪŋˈɒtəmi/
- Specialized
- After experiencing severe ear pain, the patient underwent a myringotomy to drain the accumulated fluid.
- myringotomy tube
- myringotomy with insertion
- myringotomy and tube placement
Examples
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The patients were less than 18 years of age and had myringotomy with tube insertion at the head and neck surgery department of a large health maintenance organization.
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Myringotomy with tube insertion should be the procedure of last resort.
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The estimated cost of myringotomy tubes is $2,174 per patient.
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The risk of one or more episodes of otorrhea following tube placement is three times higher than the risk following simple myringotomy.
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Our aim is to raise awareness of this condition in the hope that this diagnosis will be considered in patients prior to myringotomy and tympanostomy tube placement.
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The most common complications were persistent tympanostomy tubes requiring a second procedure for removal, and repeat myringotomy with tube insertion (Table 4).
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Nevertheless, preoperative tympanography is a valuable diagnostic tool for detecting OME in children who are scheduled to undergo bilateral myringotomy with tube placement.
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The mean number of visits for ear-related problems in the year after myringotomy and tube insertion was 2.8; that is, 7.8 visits fewer than before surgery (p < 0.001) (table 2).
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Enough gentamicin to fill the middle ear (0.2 to 0.3 ml) was injected through the myringotomy site and allowed to remain for 45 minutes (with the patient in the supine position).
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For 273 patients (180 boys, 93 girls), myringotomy with tube insertion was performed for serous (165 patients), recurrent (52 patients), and chronic (56 patients) otitis.
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Synonyms
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A small operation that makes a hole in the eardrum to let fluid out and make pressure equal
A small cut in the eardrum to drain fluid, relieve ear pressure, or fix the middle ear
How Invasive
Surface Forms
Morphology
myringotomy = myringo + tomy
Formed from specialised medical combining forms ('myringo-' + '-tomy') that are not productive standalone English words and are unfamiliar to average learners, so the meaning cannot be derived from common vocabulary.
Etymology
Myringotomy breaks into two parts: myringo- meaning 'eardrum' and -tomy meaning 'cut', the same -tomy you see in surgery words like appendectomy. So a myringotomy is a small cut into the eardrum to let pressure or fluid out.