Otology vs Otologist - What's the difference?
otology | otologist |
(medicine) The branch of medicine that deals with the ear, its structure, function and pathology.
A doctor specializing in otology.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 4, author=Jamie Talan, title=Early Action Proving Crucial to Hearing Success, work=New York Times
, passage=“We need to identify children early and provide them with hearing tools and training by the time they are 6 months,” said Dr. John Greinwald, a pediatric otologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. }}
*2012 , (Rupert Christiansen), ‘Quiet, Please’, Literary Review , Sep 2012:
*:Today's teenagers are siphoning dangerous levels of membrane-damaging noise directly into their eardrums, with long-term effects that otologists prophesy will be disastrous for their hearing and lead to an epidemic of middle-aged deafness in the next thirty years.
As nouns the difference between otology and otologist
is that otology is (medicine) the branch of medicine that deals with the ear, its structure, function and pathology while otologist is a doctor specializing in otology.otology
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