Glossary for Ménière's disease

• Balance symptoms: Problems with balance or vertigo
• Cerebrovascular accident: Occurs when the blood supply to the brain is interrupted and results in cell injury and death.
• Deafness: Inability to hear sounds.
• Ear conditions: Any condition that affects the ear
• Ear fullness: Feeling of fullness of the ear
• Fibromyalgia: A difficult to diagnose condition affecting the muscles and/or joints
• Gentamicin - Teratogenic Agent: There is evidence to indicate that exposure to Gentamicin (an antibiotic) during pregnancy may have a teratogenic effect on the fetus. A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects. The likelihood and severity of defects may be affected by the level of exposure and the stage of pregnancy that the exposure occurred at.
• Giddiness: A feeling on unease and unsteadiness
• Hearing impairment: Reduced ability to hear sounds.
• Sensorineural hearing loss: Hearing loss due to abnormal functioning or damage to the hearing nerve or the cochlea (inner ear) or the part of the brain that processes sound. The hearing problem may be present at birth or may be acquired through such things as aging, excessive noise or diseases such as meningitis.
• Tinnitus: Hearing noises in the ears: ringing, roaring, clicks, whistling, or hissing.
• Tunglang-Savage-Bellman syndrome: A very rare syndrome characterized mainly by hearing loss and abnormal salivary gland function.

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