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Otoscope. An otoscope or auriscope is a medical device that a doctor or other health care worker uses to look into a patient's ears. [1] Health care providers use otoscopes to screen for illness during regular check-ups and also to investigate ear symptoms. An otoscope gives a view of the ear canal and tympanic membrane or eardrum.
Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by American computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together, they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock.
Nose picking is the act of extracting nasal mucus with one's finger (rhinotillexis) and may include the subsequent ingestion of the extracted mucus (mucophagy). In Western cultures, this act is generally considered to be socially deviant; parents and pediatricians have historically tried to prevent development of the habit and attempt to break it if already established.
The Philippines is generally mountainous; uplands make up 65 percent of the country's total land area. [53]: 38 [201] The Philippines is an archipelagoof about 7,641 islands,[202][203]covering a total area (including inland bodies of water) of about 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi).
A comedo is a clogged hair follicle (pore) in the skin. [2] Keratin (skin debris) combines with oil to block the follicle. [3] A comedo can be open ( blackhead) or closed by skin ( whitehead) and occur with or without acne. [3] The word "comedo" comes from the Latin comedere, meaning "to eat up", and was historically used to describe parasitic ...
A nose is a protuberance in vertebrates that houses the nostrils, or nares, which receive and expel air for respiration alongside the mouth. Behind the nose are the olfactory mucosa and the sinuses. Behind the nasal cavity, air next passes through the pharynx, shared with the digestive system, and then into the rest of the respiratory system.
For example, in horses, the eyes are caudal to the nose and rostral to the back of the head. These terms are generally preferred in veterinary medicine and not used as often in human medicine. In humans, "cranial" and "cephalic" are used to refer to the skull, with "cranial" being used more commonly. The term "rostral" is rarely used in human ...
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