1. Medical Abbreviations
pertaining to the Ear and Eye
BY: COURTNEY LIGNOSKI

2. Pressure Equalizing Tube = PE tube
 This is a tube that a physician inserts inside the ear
drum to allow air into the middle ear.
 This helps in the prevention of painful, reoccurring
ear infections.

3. Eye, ears, nose, and throat = EENT
 These are grouped due to their close proximity and
relation to one another.
 Some doctors who specialize in these areas are called
ENT’s (ear, nose, and throat).

4. Bone conduction = BC
 Bone conduction is the conduction of sound to the
inner ear through the bones of the skull.
 Many hearing aids are based off of this natural
occurrence.

5. Both Ears = AU
 “both ears” translated from Latin is “auris utraque.”

6. Otitis media = OM
 Otitis media is an infection of the middle ear, just
behind the ear drum.

7. Emmetropia = EM
 Emmetropia is normal vision.

8. Exotropia = XT
 Exotropia is where the eyes are deviated outward.
Also called “wall-eyed”

9. Left eye = OS
 “left eye” translated from Latin is “sinistram oculus.”

10. Extraocular movement = EOM
 Extraocular movement happens due to the sixe
muscles that attach to the eyeball itself which allows
for the eye to move in all directions.

11. Visual Acuity = VA
 Visual Acuity is a person’s ability to see things clearly
and with clarity.
 Visual Acuity is measured by a Snellen Chart.