tympanoplasty
- noun
- /ˌtɪm.pə.nəˈplæs.ti/
- Specialized
- One year earlier, she had undergone tympanoplasty in the right ear to improve her hearing.
- tympanoplasty with mastoidectomy
- tympanoplasty for cholesteatoma
- revision tympanoplasty
Examples
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Combined mastoidectomy and tympanoplasty have been considered the gold standard for the treatment of chronically draining ears.
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After months of experiencing hearing loss, she decided to undergo tympanoplasty to repair her damaged eardrum.
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A couple of months later, the patient was scheduled for revision tympanoplasty of his left ear.
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For example, it is known that tympanoplasty failure rates are higher in patients who have larger perforations.
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We know that we can often cure CSOM by performing a tympanoplasty.
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A mastoidectomy and tympanoplasty were performed to remove a possible cholesteatoma.
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Sometimes systemic antibiotics are used in addition, and tympanoplasty may be used if the eardrum fails to heal.
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Previous tympanoplasty is one of several known predisposing factors for external auditory canal cholesteatoma.
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We reviewed the records of 28 children who underwent bilateral fat graft tympanoplasties and report our findings.
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The patient had previously undergone a left tympanoplasty for cholesteatoma as a sequela of chronic otitis media.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
Surgery to repair a hole in the eardrum using a small piece of tissue from behind the ear
How Invasive
- Specialized
- Specialized
- Specialized
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
tympanoplasty = tympan + plasty
The meaning is opaque to most learners because it is a medical term built from specialized classical elements, and neither the root nor the suffix is a familiar everyday English word.
Etymology
Tympanoplasty comes from Greek parts: tympano- meaning 'drum' and -plasty meaning 'to shape' or 'repair'. So tympanoplasty is literally 'drum shaping' and refers to the surgery that fixes the eardrum and the small bones in the middle ear.