otolaryngology
noun
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Definition of otolaryngology
: a medical specialty concerned especially with the ear, nose, and throat
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Other Words from otolaryngology
otolaryngological
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otolaryngologist
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Examples of otolaryngology in a Sentence
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That makes your nose one of the first lines of defense for keeping potentially harmful particles out of your lungs, Erich Voigt, M.D., clinical associate professor and chief of general/sleep otolaryngology at NYU Langone Health, tells SELF. — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, "Quick Question: Why Do We Sneeze?," 8 Mar. 2019 Medullary thyroid cancer can be fatal and is typically worse than the two most common types of thyroid cancer (papillary and follicular), Sam Huh, MD, chief of otolaryngology at Mount Sinai Brooklyn, tells Health. — Maggie O'neill, Health.com, "The Growths on This Child’s Tongue Led to an Extremely Rare Medullary Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis," 17 July 2019 One expert, Michael Cohen, a physician at Massachusetts Eye and Ear and an assistant professor of otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School, explains why moving vehicles make kids queasy and gives tips on how to deal with the nausea. — Heidi Mitchell, WSJ, "What’s the Remedy for Car Sickness?," 15 Aug. 2018 The team of researchers, which included Kris R. Jatana, director of pediatric otolaryngology quality improvement at Ohio’s NCH, wanted to find an ingestible intervention that could help prevent those injuries. — Rita Giordano, Philly.com, "What to do after a child swallows a button battery? Try honey, CHOP study suggests," 11 June 2018 The surgery was performed by Dr. Kristen Honsinger, who works at the hospital’s otolaryngology team. — Fox News, "Video of mom seeing baby hear for first time goes viral," 2 July 2018 There, he was named in 1985 as an associate professor of head and neck surgery and otolaryngology. — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, "Dr. John C. Price, head and neck surgeon, dies," 4 June 2018 At Michael Teixido’s otolaryngology practice in Wilmington, Del., the annual holiday party has long featured a joke video lampooning the doctors. — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, "Lunches, hugs, and break-room banter: Where are the new boundaries at work?," 6 Mar. 2018 Alford was Baylor's chairman of otolaryngology for 43 years, from 1967 to 2010. — Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle, "Bobby Alford, Baylor College of Medicine fixture, dead at 87," 20 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'otolaryngology.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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otolaryngology
noun
oto·lar·yn·gol·o·gy
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plural otolaryngologies
Medical Definition of otolaryngology
: a medical specialty concerned especially with the ear, nose, and throat
— called also otorhinolaryngology
Other Words from otolaryngology
otolaryngological
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