Attic Ear Definition

The upper part of the tympanic cavity of the ear.

Attic ear definition. A vacuum is created in your middle ear which sucks in your ear drum making a sac the perfect place for skin cells to collect. Tympanums tympana is an air filled chamber in the petrous part of the temporal bone. Miller keane encyclopedia and dictionary of medicine nursing and allied health seventh edition. Medical definition of attic.

It often develops as a cyst that sheds layers of old skin and may. A room or rooms in an attic. A low story or decorative wall above an entablature or the main cornice of a building. An acute traumatic perforation of the tympanic membrane is due to an impact to the head ear or penetration of an object through the ear canal.

This may result in a temporal bone fracture allowing leakage of cerebrospinal fluid into the middle ear space. Is required to the head. It is separated from the external ear by the tympanic membrane and from the inner ear by the medial wall of the tympanic cavity. The small upper space of the middle ear called also epitympanic recess.

A cholesteatoma is an abnormal noncancerous skin growth that can develop in the middle section of your ear behind the eardrum. The part of a building especially of a house directly under a roof. 2003 by saunders an imprint of elsevier inc. Cholesteatomas caused by ear infections are the most common kind.

At ik a small upper space of the middle ear containing the head of the malleus and the body of the incus. For a perforation to occur a pressure increase of 25 lb sq in. The attic is just above the eardrum. 2003 by saunders an imprint of elsevier inc.

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