otorrhoeaotorrhean.

1772 D. MacBride Methodical Introd. Theory & Pract. Physic 192 Otorrhoea—Discharge of humours from the internal ear.

1823 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 19 93 The process which we have now described is always attended with a considerable secretion of puriform or purulent material,–constituting the disease to which M. Itard has given the name of Otorrhœa.

1867 J. King Causes Chronic Dis. 1277 This [discharge] is more or less profuse, varying in color from milky white to dark slate, sometimes bloody, generally very offensive, and constituting one form of otorrhea.

1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. ii. 88 Deafness is not unfrequent, the hearing failing without any external disease, such as otorrhœa.

1900 Lancet 10 Mar. 702/2 An uncomplicated otorrhoea which has resisted all forms of treatment for six months is certainly a case for ossiculectomy.

1923 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 9 274 In both ears the patient had otorrhoea from the age of 19 to 21.

1967 Laryngoscope 77 341 (title) Congenital cerebrospinal fluid otorrhea via a defect in the stapes footplate.

1977 Lancet 16 July 19/1 The second variety of chronic otitis media presents with scanty offensive otorrhœa.

2002 Times 13 Feb. ii. (Medical Guide) 17/2 The skin of the ear canal becomes red and swollen; there may be a discharge from the ear (otorrhoea).

1877 tr. G. Huguenin in tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XII. 808 Otorrhœal [Ger. otorrhoische] abscess of the brain.

1981 Acta Otolaryngologica 92 285 The counts of viable bacteria in otorrheal samples collected before and after CEX [= cephalexin] administration were determined.

1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Otorrhöicus,..otorrhoic.