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Earmuffs refer to two different items. Both items consist of a thermoplastic or metal head-band that fits over the top or back of the head, and a cushion or cup at each end to usually cover both ears. The cups can either be clothing accessories designed to cover a person's ears for warmth or personal protective equipment designed to cover a ...
Ossicular replacement prosthesis. In medicine, an ossicular replacement prosthesis is a device intended to be implanted for the functional reconstruction of segments of the ossicles and facilitates the conduction of sound waves from the tympanic membrane to the inner ear. [ 1] There are two common types of ossicular replacement prostheses, the ...
Ear picks, also called ear scoops, or ear spoons, or earpicks, are a type of curette used to clean the ear canal of earwax (cerumen). They are preferred and are commonly used in East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia because Asians tend to develop dry ear wax. [ 1][ 2] In Asia, these are traditionally made from bamboo or precious metals such ...
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation ( TAVI) is the implantation of the aortic valve of the heart through the blood vessels without actual removal of the native valve (as opposed to the aortic valve replacement by open heart surgery, surgical aortic valve replacement, AVR). The first TAVI was performed on 16 April 2002 by Alain Cribier ...
Brown is outer ear. Red is middle ear. Purple is inner ear. The auricula. Lateral surface. The outer ear, external ear, or auris externa is the external part of the ear, which consists of the auricle (also pinna) and the ear canal. [ 1] It gathers sound energy and focuses it on the eardrum ( tympanic membrane ).
Tears, hugs and a salute as three freed Americans back on US soil after historic prisoner swap with Russia
A global replacement algorithm is free to select any page in memory. Local page replacement assumes some form of memory partitioning that determines how many pages are to be assigned to a given process or a group of processes. Most popular forms of partitioning are fixed partitioning and balanced set algorithms based on the working set model ...
The revamp has given the bunker a different look, paving the way for what Bunker St. Pauli calls “an unforgettable experience.”