Brain abscess ( or cerebral abscess ) is an abscess caused by inflammation and collection of infected material, coming from local ( ear infection, dental abscess, infection of paranasal sinuses, infection of the mastoid air cells of the temporal bone, epidural abscess ) or remote ( lung, heart, kidney etc.

The location of the primary lesion may be suggested by the location of the abscess: infections of the middle ear result in lesions in the middle and posterior cranial fossae ; congenital heart disease with right-to-left shunts often result in abscesses in the distribution of the middle cerebral artery ; and infection of the frontal and ethmoid sinuses usually results in collection in the subdural sinuses.

This resulted in the discovery of an inner ear infection that disqualified him from flight status.

* leaking cerebrospinal fluid ( a clear fluid drainage from nose, mouth or ear ) may be and is strongly indicative of basilar skull fracture and the tearing of sheaths surrounding the brain, which can lead to secondary brain infection.

His life was saved by the illness and death of the king, as a result of an infection or an abscess in his ear.

On Americus's 5th birthday, Novalee is paranoid about her party because of the unlucky 5 ( when Americus was 5 days old, she had jaundice ; at 5 weeks old, she had an ear infection ; at 5 months old, she was kidnapped ).

Total or near total sensorineural deafness could be the result of congenital malformations, head trauma or inner ear infection.

Chronic ear infection ( a fairly common diagnosis ) could result in a defective ear drum or middle-ear ossicle damages, or both.

He was ordered to the ship with a draft of replacements shortly before the Okinawa campaign, but his life was spared because he was held back after his pilot developed an ear infection.

Recurrent otitis media ( middle ear infection ) and sinusitis is common during early childhood.

Earwax-yellow secretion from glands in the outer ear ( cerumen ) that keeps the skin of the ear dry and protected from infection.

Labyrinthitis-viral or bacterial infection or inflammation of the inner ear that can cause dizziness, loss of balance, and temporary hearing loss.

Otitis media-inflammation of the middle ear caused by infection.

The symptoms may occur in the presence of a middle ear infection, head trauma, or an upper respiratory tract infection, or by using aspirin, smoking cigarettes, or drinking alcohol.

When Bill was ten years old he developed a mastoid infection of his ear that led to his being transferred to a private boarding school in Tucson, Arizona.

Balance can be upset by Ménière's disease, superior canal dehiscence syndrome, an inner ear infection, by a bad common cold affecting the head or a number of other medical conditions.

Francis II, who had always been a sickly child, died on 5 December 1560 in Orléans, Loiret, at the age of sixteen, when an ear infection worsened and caused an abscess in his brain.

It can also affect and erode, through the enzymes it produces, the thin bone structure that isolates the top of the ear from the brain, as well as lay the covering of the brain open to infection with serious complications ( rarely even death due to causing a brain abscess and septicemia ).

Septic complications — today rare — include ear and sinus infection, streptococcal pneumonia, empyema thoracis, meningitis and full-blown sepsis, upon which the condition may be called malignant scarlet fever.

The secondary scarlatinous disease, or secondary malignant syndrome of scarlet fever, includes renewed fever, renewed angina, septic ear, nose, and throat complications and kidney infection or rheumatic fever and is seen around the eighteenth day of untreated scarlet fever.

Hayek suffered damage to his hearing in his left ear during the war, and was decorated for bravery.

While in Rome he suffered a severe cold, which left him partially deaf, and, as a result, he began to carry a small ear trumpet with which he is often pictured

With my right hand on his left ear, I give it a jerk, and you hear the bones go snaps his fingers BEEK, and he's dead.

His opponent barely missed killing Carson with his rifle shot ; it grazed below his left ear and scorched his eye and hair.

3-M Littmann is also credited with a collapsible mold frame for sludge molding a single column bifurcating stethoscope tube with an internal septum dividing the single column stethoscope tube into discrete left and right binaural channels ( AKA " cardiology tubing "; including a covered, or internal leaf spring-binaural ear tube connector ).

* Saying the " Adhan " ( prayer call ) in the right ear of a newborn and the Iqama in its left.

* February 26 – U. S. politician John Glenn slips on a bathroom rug in his Columbus, Ohio apartment and hits his head on the bathtub, injuring his left inner ear, and prompting him ( later that week ) to withdraw from the race for the Democratic Party Senate nomination.

* December 23 – During a bout of mental illness, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cuts off the lower part of his own left ear.

Other vessels are described, some carrying air, some mucus, and two to the right ear are said to carry the " breath of life ", while two to the left ear the " breath of death ".

Columbus, as his immediate successor in Padua, and afterwards professor at Rome, distinguished himself by rectifying and improving the anatomy of the bones, by giving correct accounts of the shape and cavities of the heart, of the pulmonary artery and aorta and their valves, and tracing the course of the blood from the right to the left side of the heart, by a good description of the brain and its vessels, and by correct understanding of the internal ear, and the first good account of the ventricles of the larynx.

For a hanging, the knot of the rope is typically placed under or just behind the left ear.

Her smallest tattoo was on her left ear and consisted of an arrow pointing to her left over the symbol of an eye, a reference to her nickname.

After boarding, Fandiño cut off the left ear of the Rebecca < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s captain, Robert Jenkins, who had been accused of piracy.

While Hello Kitty wears a bow on her left ear, Mimmy wears hers on the right.

Studies done on both right and left ear sufferers show that patients with their right ear affected tend to do significantly worse in cognitive performance.

Glenn sustained a concussion and injured his inner ear, and recovery left him unable to campaign.

In 1998, the Cardinals dedicated a bust of Buck that showed him smiling with a hand cupping his left ear.

At the age of 12, George ( Bobby Anderson ) saved his younger brother Harry ( George Nokes ), who had fallen through the ice on a frozen pond, though George lost the hearing in his left ear in this effort.

He found Frank McLaury had two wounds: a gunshot beneath the right ear that horizontally penetrated his head, and a second entering his abdomen one inch to the left of his navel.

While there, he cut off the lower part of his left ear lobe.

The form seen in standard roman type differs widely from that taught in elementary schools ( and italic type ), having an " ear " at the upper right and a descender that starts from the left and ends in a bowl, rather than a loop.

Merritt suffers from a hearing condition known as hyperacusis ; any sound heard louder than normal begins to " feedback " in his left ear at increasingly louder volumes.