AAA American Academy of Audiology

AAO-HNS American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

ABR Auditory Brain-stem Response (hearing test) - See PubMed ABR

Ac Acouphènes

AEO Acute External Otitis (same as AOE)

AEP Auditory Evoked Potentials - See PubMed AEP

ALHL Acute Low-tone sensorineural Hearing Loss

ANOF Association Nationale des ORL en Formation (FR)

ANOM Acute Necrotizing Otitis Media

AOE Acute Otitis Externa - See PubMed AOE

AOM Acute Otitis Media (same as OMA)

AOME Acute Otitis Media with Effusion

ARHL Age Related Hearing Loss

ASHA American Speech - Language Association

ASOM Acute Suppurativa Otitis Media

ATA American Tinnitus Association

ATA Australian Tinnitus Association (NSW)

ATM Auditory Tinnitus Management - See PubMed ATM

BNOE Benign Necrotizing Otitis Externa

BO Bourdonnements d’Oreille

BOE Bilateral Otitis Externa

BOM Bilateral Otitis Media

BPPV Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

British tinnitus association (UK, registered charity)

BSO Bilateral Serous Otitis

BSOM Bilateral Serous Otitis Media

Co Cochléaire

COM Chronic Otitis Media - See PubMed COM

COME Chronic Otitis Media with Effusion

COMP Chronic Otitis Media Purulenta

COMS Chronic Otitis Media Sequelae

CPOM Chronic Purulent Otitis Media

CSOM Chronic Serous Otitis Media

CSOM Chronic Suppurative Otitis Media

CV Cochléo-Vestibulaire

Deafness Surdité

DA Diminution d’Acuité auditive

DOE Diffuse Otitis Externa

DPOAE Distortion Product OtoAcoustic Emission (hearing test)

DPV Disabling Positional Vertigo - See PubMed DPV

DTM Dysfonctionnement Temporo-Mandibulaire

ENT Ear, Nose, Throat

EOM Exsudative Otitis Media

EuroHear Projet européen d'une durée de cinq ans sur les causes génétiques de la surdité et sur le décodage de la pathogénie de ses différentes formes et plus précisément sur le mode de fonctionnement de la cochlée.

France-Acouphènes (FR, association loi de 1901)

Gallaudet University is the world leader in liberal education and career development for deaf and hard-of-hearing undergraduate students.(USA, Washington)

Hearing Audition

HH, HoH Hard of Hearing / Malentendant

Hyperacusis Hyperacousie

IAC Internal Acoustic Canal

IEO Invasive External Otitis

Karger Journal for Oto-Rhino-Laringology

LDAEP Loudness Dependence of the Auditory Evoked potential

LOM Left Otitis Media

MEO Malignant External Otitis

MNEO Malignant Necrotizing External Otitis

MOE Malignant Otitis Externa

MOM Mucoid Otitis Externa

Mumps Oreillons

NC Nasal Cannula

NEO Necrotizing External Otitis

NGT NasoGastric Tube

NIDCD National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders (USA, NIH)

NIT Noise Induced Tinnitus

NSOM Non-Suppurativa Otitis Media

OAE OtoAcoustic Emissions (hearing test) - See The OAE Organization - See PubMed OAE

OE Otitis Externa

OM Otitis Media

OMA Otite Moyenne Aiguë (- Idem AOM)

OMC Otitis Media Chronica

OMP Otitis Media Purulenta

OPA OroPharyngeal Airway

ORL-France Site de la SFORL (FR)

ORL Oto-Rhino-Laryngology (Ear, nose and Throat) / ORL OtoRhinoLaryngologie

PAOM Persistent Acute Otitis Media

POM Pneumococcal Otitis Media - See PubMed POM

ROM Recurrent Otitis Media

SFORL Société Française d'ORL et de chirurgie de la face et du cou (FR)

SOM Serous Otitis Media

SOM Suppurativa Otitis Media

SOS-Audition (FR)

STSS Subjective Tinnitus Severity Scale - See PubMed STSS

TA Toxicité Auditive

TEOAE Transient Evoked OtoAcoustic Emissions

THI Tinnitus Handicap Inventory - See PubMed THI

THQ Tinnitus Handicap Questionnaire - See PubMed THQ

Tinnitus Acouphène(s)

TOM Tuberculous Otitis Media - See PubMed TOM

TQ Tinnitus Questionnaire

TRQ Tinnitus Reaction Questionnaire - See PubMed TRQ

VA Voies Auriculaires

VCN Vestibulo-Cochlear Nerve

VEP Virtual Evoked Potential