otalgia
- noun
- /oʊˈtæl.dʒə/
- Specialized
- A 35-year-old woman presented with persistent otalgia, otorrhea, and headache.
- persistent otalgia
- severe otalgia
- right-sided otalgia
Examples
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A 53-year-old woman presented with recurrent, persistent right-sided otalgia, otorrhea, and headache.
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A 68-year-old woman presented with an 18-month history of otalgia, hearing loss, and an offensive-smelling discharge from her right ear.
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Characteristically, there is little or no otalgia.
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The patient reported that although his hearing was unchanged and he had no otalgia or otorrhea, he did hear crackling in that ear.
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A 27-year-old woman presented with persistent bilateral otalgia, otorrhea, and headache.
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Other symptoms include dysphagia, odynophagia, neck pain, dysphonia, otalgia, and hearing loss.
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Postoperative pain can lead to poor oral intake, dehydration, fever, otalgia, and a difficult recovery.
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A 39-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of persistent otalgia, otorrhea, and headache.
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A 3-year-old boy was referred to our clinic with a 2-month history of right-sided otalgia and bleeding from the external auditory canal.
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The doctor diagnosed her with otalgia after she complained of severe ear pain.
Synonyms
Pain inside the ear that can be sharp or dull
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
otalgia = ot + algia
The word is derived from Greek roots 'ot-' meaning 'ear' and '-algia' meaning 'pain', but these are not transparent or recognizable English morphemes for most learners.
Etymology
The word otalgia comes from Greek parts oto- 'ear' and -algia 'pain'. So, otalgia simply means 'ear pain', and you can see the same parts in medical words like otitis, meaning 'ear infection', and otoscope, a tool used to look into the ear.