otitis externa

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   inflammation of the external ear (including auricle and ear canal)

   Broaderotitis

Questions about otitis externa

What does otitis externa mean?

otitis externa means "inflammation of the external ear (including auricle and ear canal)".

Is otitis externa a common word?

otitis externa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.