Definition of Meniere

1. Noun. French otologist who first described a form of vertigo now known as Meniere's disease and identified the semicircular canals as the site of the lesion (1799-1862).

Exact synonyms: Prosper Meniere
Generic synonyms: Ear Doctor, Ear Specialist, Otologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meniere

Mendelson's syndrome
Mendelssohn
Mendelssohnian
Mendenhall Glacier
Mendoza line
Mendy
Menehune
Menehunes
Menelaus
Menetrier's disease
Menetrier's syndrome
Menge's pessary
Mengen
Mengo encephalitis
Mengo virus
Meniere (current term)
Meniere's disease
Meniere's syndrome
Menippe
Menippe mercenaria
Meniscium
Menkalinan
Menkar
Menninger
Menno
Mennonite

Literary usage of Meniere

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reminiscences of a Yorkshire Naturalist by William Crawford Williamson (1896)
"CHAPTER IX M. Meniere and Paris—Establishment of Ear Institute— Fresh water ... Meniere of Paris, surgeon to the celebrated Deaf and Dumb Hospital in the ..."

2. The Diseases of the Ear: Their Diagnosis and Treatment : a Textbook of Aural by Anton Friedrich Tröltsch, Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1864)
"Affection of the semi-circular Canals with Cerebral Symptoms according to Meniere. GENTLEMEN—An intelligent ophthalmologist once described Amaurosis, ..."

3. Annual of the Universal Medical Sciencesedited by [Anonymus AC02809657] edited by [Anonymus AC02809657] (1889)
"That vertigo Meniere can be caused by pathological processes in the brain ... Ordinarily vertigo Meniere has its origin in some pathological condition of ..."

4. The History of Ten Years, 1830-1840: Or, France Under Louis Philippe by Louis Blanc (1848)
"M. Deneux and M. Meniere went to bed, not expecting that their services were ... M. Meniere ran and knocked at the door of the corridor, loudly calling to ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"Ohrenheilk., 1907, Ixix, 233) makes two divisions of the cases presenting the complex of symptoms first described by Meniere, the apoplectic and the ..."

6. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the ear: Including the Anatomy of by Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1881)
"This case, however, was not a true specimen of the cases from the clinical history of which Meniere made his diagnosis. It was that of a yonng woman who, ..."

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