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Protruding ears
Protruding ears is a facial feature in which a person's ears appear to stick out from his head more than usual, in comparison to the average person of the same racial/ethnic group. Facial features can be familial (passed from parent to child), or they can sometimes be due to a medical condition.
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A 18-year old male asked:
What physical damage could protruding ears possibly have on the individual?
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A 34-year old asked:
Do protruding ears grow droopy as one ages?
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A 38-year old asked:
Is otoplasty surgery effective for removing protruding ears?
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A female asked:
I have a lump that seems like bone that is protruding out and its red and when touched it hurts. Its at the head area behind the ear.
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A 24-year old male asked:
My neck is lordosis and my head is protruding how can I have normal posture.Thank you in advance?
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A 31-year old male asked:
I fell form my truck & banged my head on the ground now i struggle to lift my head up & my neck muscles are protruding?
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A 60-year old asked:
My wife has this growth on top of her head which looks as if its brain tissue protruding from a tiny hole in her skull. What is this?
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A 21-year old male asked:
I have a protruding vein in the back of my head and severe migraines all day everyday after my accident. I was ejected from vehicle between 80-100mph?
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A member asked about a 66-year old male:
My husband had a small spot frozen off from his ear lobe. Now there is a white thing sticking out of his ear. He just noticed it. What now?
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A member asked:
Right ear itches or tickles on outside of head especially the little flap sticking out in front. Do not use shampoo, use only ivory soap for shampoo, seems to help, other shampoo makes really bad. Only right ear
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A 21-year old female asked:
It feels as if my bone is sticking out behind my ear. Not breaking the skin or anything but a hard bone-like bump and its extremely painful. Any ideas?
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A 24-year old female asked:
What helps stop muscle spasms in the neck as a result of whiplash/ slight protruding disc? The spasms in my neck scare me and I feel like they make my head move slightly, though when I ask people if they saw my head move during a spasm they say no?
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A female asked:
I have a vein by my temple that is sticking out. My ear blocked alittle. History migraine,high BP 140/80, anxiety, allergies. Should I be worried?
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A 18-year old male asked:
I was scratched by a nail sticking out of a fence on the side of my head. It looked like a clean nail but im still worried about tetanus.
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A female asked:
I was in a car accident and I got over 40 stitches inside and out of my head and I think that I see one of the dissolvable stitches sticking out of my?
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A 23-year old male asked:
The head of my penis is not sticking out it is just the foreskin is that normal? I'm uncircumcised
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A 27-year old male asked:
What would cause a portion of the medial head (about an inch wide) of the gastrocnemius to feel like it is sticking out? From behind knee + descending
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A 25-year old female asked:
I have something hard type extra part proturding on my head since 5-6 year.Im very worried bcoz one of my friend told me that this can be tumour?
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A 46-year old female asked:
Sharp pain when i touch top bone sticking out of my shoulder and it hurts to move arm over head and other ways?
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A 17-year old male asked:
My penis head, where the frenulum is located has a weird lump sticking out. Also that my foreskin is staying halfway at the head of the skin.
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A 23-year old female asked:
I hit my head a few months back on a nail sticking out in my attic. I'm 24 got my tetanus shot at 12 should I be worried? I don't remember bleeding
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A 39-year old male asked:
Ihad a cyst on the back of my head cut open to drain by doc. Today i notice a lump of skin sticking out that looks like blood but its skin. What is it?
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A 23-year old female asked:
I hit my head a few months back on a nail sticking out in my attic. I'm 24 got my tetanus shot at 12 should I be worried? I don't remember bleeding . Wouldn't I have symptoms I'm scared already of tetanus if I was going to get it
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A 37-year old female asked:
If my friend has traumatic brain damage but she can cry move your head from side to side following you throughout the room breathe on her own respond by blinking twice or sticking out her tongue and she's breathing on her own what state is that?
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A male asked:
How long is post-surgery recovery for ear surgery for pinning ears? I have been embarrassed about my protruding ears since i was a child and am thinking about having ear surgery to pin them back. I don't want to have a long recovery period though, because
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A 42-year old asked:
What does it mean when my ear(s) ring?
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A 27-year old female asked:
I have a ear problem its itch and dry and painful ?
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A 17-year old female asked:
Very protruding heartbeat(more noticeable leaning back).happens in episodes.dont have anxiety.HR will be in 90's.shake w each beat,body pulsates.
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A 31-year old female asked:
My ear is currently blocked, sometimes painful but the pain is not bad and it just comes and goes but usually its just the blocking please assist?
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A 61-year old female asked:
I have S curve scoliosis and my vertabrea is protruding in my middle back. Cannot sit in chair without bumping it and sit on my tailbone. Any sugge?
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