What Your Ears Say About Your Health
What Are Your Ears Telling You?
Earlobe Crease
Pits and Folds
Low-Set Ears
Missing External Ear
Unusual Ear Shape
Ringing in the Ears (Tinnitus)
Itchy Ears
Earache
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association: “Causes of Hearing Loss in Adults.”
Children’s National Health System: “Pediatric Ear Malformations.”
Harvard Health Publications: “Got an ear full? Here's some advice.”
LiveScience: “How to Get Rid of Earwax.”
Mayo Clinic: “Ear Infection,” “Tinnitus.”
National Health Service (UK): “Earache.”
National Institutes of Health: “Syndromic ear anomalies and renal ultrasounds,” “Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome,” “Jacobsen syndrome,” “Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome,” “Frank’s sign: a potential predictor of cardiovascular disease,” “Middle ear infection: Overview.”
Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Alliance: “Psoriasis and Sensitive Areas.”
Stanford School of Medicine: “What is the name of this sign?”
The Microtia -- Congenital Ear Deformity Institute: “About Microtia.”
University of Delaware: “Earwax type: The Myth, The Reality.”
University of Texas: “Itchy Ears.”