Imagine drifting off to sleep or waking up in the middle of the night, only to be jolted by the sound of a deafening explosion, a gunshot, or shattering glass—except no one else hears it.

This same individual also showed signs of sclerotization (hardening) of the mastoid process, a part of the skull behind the ear. In modern medicine, this finding is associated with acute or chronic ...

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The TEAEs occurred in separate patients, with one child experiencing a grade 3 case of mastoiditis—inflammation ... between the sensory cells of the inner ear and the auditory nerve.

“A year after treatment in one ear with DB-OTO, a child born profoundly deaf was able to enjoy music, engage in imaginative play and participate in bedtime reading when the cochlear implant on ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, in collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, used an innovative imaging tool to examine the mouse inner ear and made a ...

and Mercedes Conde-Valverde from the Cátedra de Otoacústica Evolutiva de HM Hospitales y la Universidad de Alcalá led a team of researchers who analyzed the semicircular canals — the fluid-filled ...

New research on the inner ear morphology of Neanderthals and their ancestors challenges the widely accepted theory that Neanderthals originated after an evolutionary event that implied the loss of ...

Mastoid variations crucial for optimal microtia surgical outcomes. Microtia is a congenital disorder of the auricle that occurs with varying degrees of severity, from mild structural abnormalities to ...

Read before the Ninth International Otological Congress, at Boston, August, 1912.