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Aero-otitis

Aero-otitis (aerootitis; Greek aer, aeros – air, air + Greek from us, otos – an ear + lat. it (словообраз. a suffix) – inflammatory process) – an inflammation of a middle ear which is caused by a barotrauma when flying in the airplane.

Allocate:

  • The aero-otitis acute (aerootitis acuta) – is characterized by hemorrhages in a tympanic membrane, in certain cases – its gap, an acute pain, noise and a congestion in ears;
  • The aero-otitis chronic (aerootitis chronica) – is caused by the fibrous processes in a drum cavity arising after an acute form of a disease with hemorrhages; it is characterized by a sonitus, resistant relative deafness, rigidity and retraction of a tympanic membrane.
 
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