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Definition of "otalgia" [‖O•tal•gi•a]

  • Pain in the ear; earache. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "otalgia" in a sentence
  • "In this case the otalgia belongs to the fourth class of diseases."
  • "When patients in endemic areas present with fever and rash and have sensorineural hearing loss or otalgia without otoscopic abnormalities, clinicians should suspect scrub typhus and consider empirical antibiotic therapy."
  • "During his life the subject was complaining for reported ipsilateral otalgia presumably due to nerve compression from the elongated styloid process."