cerumen

• The American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) will issue the first comprehensive clinical guidelines to help health care practitioners identify patients with cerumen (commonly referred to as earwax) impaction ... —  Medlogs - Recent stories
• That's why tiny glands in the outer ear canal constantly pump out a watery substance, which gets mixed with bits of dead hair and skin and together is called earwax or cerumen. —  msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
• Ear wax, which is clinically referred to as cerumen, has many purposes which include cleaning and lubricating the ear canal, antimicrobrial properties, anti-fungal properties, and it has been suggested that it acts as an insect repellant. —  SunHerald.com: Featured Story
• In respect to external ear trouble, impacted cerumen is usually found to result from water in the ear, or wax in the ear. —  The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States
• If washed sufficiently often, and syringed once a week with warm milk and water, or with very weak soap-suds, gently warmed, the cerumen or ear wax will hardly be found accumulated in such masses as to produce deafness. —  The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health

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