Definition of Mastoiditis. Meaning of Mastoiditis. Synonyms of Mastoiditis

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Definition of Mastoiditis

Mastoiditis
Mastoiditis Mas`toid*i*tis, n. [NL. See Mastoid, and -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.

Meaning of Mastoiditis from wikipedia

- Mastoiditis is the result of an infection that extends to the air cells of the skull behind the ear. Specifically, it is an inflammation of the mucosal...
- a form of skeletal pneumaticity. Infection in these cells is called mastoiditis. The term cells here refers to enclosed spaces, not cells as living,...
- for Lemierre's syndrome. It has also been known to cause sinusitis, mastoiditis, and odontogenic infections. F. necrophorum is a rod-shaped species of...
- skull, near the inner ears. This can be done as part of treatment for mastoiditis, chronic suppurative otitis media or cholesteatoma. In addition, it is...
- early loss of her mother at age four who died from suffocation due to mastoiditis. Rumors have persisted that she committed suicide. This set the stage...
- extension of infection to surrounding anatomic structures, including: Mastoiditis: infection of the air cells in the mastoid process, the area of the skull...
- (hole in the eardrum due to infection, trauma, explosion or loud noise) Mastoiditis Inner ear diseases BPPV – benign paroxysmal positional vertigo Labyrinthitis/Vestibular...
- called Gradenigo-Lannois syndrome, is a complication of otitis media and mastoiditis involving the apex of the petrous temporal bone. It was first described...
- Glomerulonephritis PANDAS syndrome Peritonsillar abscess Cervical lymphadenitis Mastoiditis The economic cost of the disease in the United States in children is...
- is an abscess deep to the sternocleidomastoid muscle where pus from mastoiditis erodes through the cortex of the mastoid part of the temporal bone, medial...