mastoiditis
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of mastoiditis
Example Sentences
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David Nash died in November 2020 after developing mastoiditis in his ear, which caused an abscess on his brain.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2023
Andrew Nash, 56, said: "The mastoiditis is readily treatable with modern antibiotics and it should never have been left to get to the stage where it caused the complication of a brain abscess."
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2021
Serious infections, left untreated, can also cause meningitis or mastoiditis, an infection of the mastoid bone in the skull, which requires surgery.
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2013
Antibiotics have all but routed mastoiditis, an inflammation of bone cells behind the inner ear and, along with vaccines, helped bring whooping cough and diphtheria under control.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two days later he had lain unconscious, strapped to the captain's table, whilst the ship's doctor, a young man, himself in the horrible throes of seasickness, had performed a radical operation for acute mastoiditis.
From The Dark House by Wylie, I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross)
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