Meniere Disease Glossary of Terms

1. Anatomy of an Ear Infection Slideshow Pictures
2. Take the Ear Infection Quiz
3. Tinnitus (Ringing of the Ears) Slideshow Pictures

Acute: Of abrupt onset, in reference to a disease. Acute often also connotes an illness th...

Allergy: A misguided reaction to foreign substances by the immune system, the body system ...

Anxiety: A feeling of apprehension and fear, characterized by physical symptoms such as pa...

Bioterrorism: Terrorism using biologic agents that are harmful to humans. Biological disea...

Brain: The portion of the central nervous system that is located within the skull. It func...

Diagnosis: 1 The nature of a disease; the identification of an illness. 2 A ...

Dizziness: Painless head discomfort with many possible causes including disturbances of ...

Ear: The hearing organ. There are three sections of the ear, according to the anatomy tex...

Emergency department: The department of a hospital responsible for the provision of medica...

Injury: Harm or hurt. To harm, hurt, or wound. The word injure may be in physical or emot...

Inner ear: A highly complex structure whose essential component for hearing is the membran...

Internal medicine: The medical specialty dedicated to the diagnosis and medical treatment ...

Middle ear: A part of the ear that consists of the eardrum (tympanic membrane) and, beyond...

MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging.

Nausea: Stomach queasiness, the urge to vomit. Nausea can be brought on by many causes, in...

Nose: The external midline projection from the face. The purpose of the nose is to warm, c...

Pharmacy: A location where prescription medications are sold. A pharmacy is constantly sup...

Primary care: A patient's main source for regular medical care, ideally providing continui...

Psychiatric: Pertaining to or within the purview of psychiatry, the medical specialty conc...

Recurrence: The return of a sign, symptom, or disease after a remission. The reappearance ...

Rule out: Term used in medicine, meaning to eliminate or exclude something from considera...

Scan: As a noun, the data or image obtained from the examination of organs or regions of...

Sensation: In medicine and physiology, sensation refers to the registration of an incoming...

Sodium: The major positive ion (cation) in the fluid surrounding cells in the body. The ch...

Stress: In a medical or biological context stress is a physical, mental, or emotional fact...

Surgery: The branch of medicine that employs operations in the treatment of disease or inj...

Sweat: A colorless transparent acidic fluid with a distinctive odor secreted by the small ...

Syndrome: A combination of symptoms and signs that together represent a disease process.

Temple: The area just behind and to the side of the forehead and the eye, above the side o...

Therapy: The treatment of disease. Therapy is synonymous with treatment.

Throat: The throat is the anterior (front) portion of the neck beginning at the back of th...

Tinnitus: Ringing in the ears. Tinnitus has many causes, including some medications (inclu...

Vertigo: Aside from being the name of a classic 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film (with Jimmy St...