Life Span on Humans. Immediately after lice eggs hatch, the nymphs need food. Using their claws to crawl from the hair shafts to the scalp, young adult and mature lice feed on the hostâs blood multiple times throughout the day.
Confidence votes 7.6K. The Latin word for ear is auris (-is, f.). The diminutive, spelled either auricula or oricula, is used to refer to the external, visible part of the ear (it is the latter that gave rise to the modern Romance words for ear: Italian orecchio, Spanish oreja, French oreille, etc.).
The medical term for an ear infection is otitis. Ear infections generally begin as inflammation of the skin inside the outer ear canal (the tube-shaped part of the ear visible under the ear flap). Once inflammation is present, discharge, redness, and other characteristics of an ear infection become established.