Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Inspection of the ear; clinical examination of the ear.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) The examination of the ear; the art of using the otoscope.

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  • noun medicine The visual examination of the inner ear using an otoscope

Etymologies

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oto- + -scopy

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  • Pure tone audiometry and tympanometry tests and pneumatic otoscopy were performed on the children who were diagnosed as OME by otoscopic examination.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2009

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