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Developing countries have a higher incidence of mastoiditis, presumably resulting from untreated otitis media.

The main symptoms of mastoiditis are increasing earache, fever, and the development of redness and swelling behind the ear.

In the highly specialized mastoid region of the skull, the North American Oligocene Protoptychus approaches to Dipopodomys, while the contemporary Gymnoptychus and Entoptychus likewise appear referable to the Geomyidae.

They have long hind limbs, large eyes and ears; and in correlation with the latter an enlarged auditory bulla to the skull, which is hollow and divided into a tympanic and a mastoid portion.

Neanderthals also had a pronounced series of bony crests on their mastoid process, located just behind their ears.

Mastoiditis is a bacterial infection of the air cells in the mastoid bone of the skull.

mastoid EEG for assessment of vigilance.

mastoid bone behind the ear.

mastoid process, located just behind their ears.

No other diagnosis had been made; and the first consultant did not think that acute mastoiditis could account for Ms M's symptoms.

Acute or classic mastoiditis refers to acute disease following AOM and involves the development of an abscess behind the ear.

In the United States and first world countries, the incidence of mastoiditis is 0.

The cleido-mastoid generally arises from the basi-occipital, and the pectoralis major is connected with the latissimus dorsi.

Synonyms:

mastoidal,

Antonyms:

ending, fall,