Otology
The temporal bone, unpacked. Hearing loss, otitis media, cochlear implants — and every ossicle in between.
Enter Otology
A field guide to ear, nose & throat
Otolaryngology,
Otolaryngology,
mapped in plain sight.
Two decades of lecture notes, case records and exam questions from Professor Dr. Balasubramanian Thiagarajan, former Head of the Department of Otolaryngology, Stanley Medical College — organised the way a clinician actually thinks: by ear, by nose, by throat.
FIG. 1 — CORONAL SECTION, TEMPORAL BONE
OTOLOGY ATLAS, PL. 01
20+ years teaching
300+ topics indexed
1000+ MCQs answered
Free access, always
CC BY-NC-SA licensed notes
Three organs, one archive.
Every note in this library sits under the organ it belongs to — no scrolling through an unsorted blog.
Rhinology
Sinuses, septum, smell. Endoscopic anatomy and the everyday conditions that block a nose.
Enter RhinologyLaryngology
Voice, swallow, airway. From a hoarse Monday-morning clinic to the tracheostomy tray.
Enter LaryngologyThe reading room.
Six ways into the same material — pick the one that fits how you learn.
PL. 01
Case Reports
Real patients, real dilemmas, written up for teaching — not just the tidy textbook version.
PL. 02
E-Books
Full-length guides, downloadable, no login and no paywall in the way.
PL. 03
MCQ Bank
Exam-style questions with explained answers, sorted by topic and difficulty.
PL. 04
Video Lectures
Recorded classes, watch at your own pace, pause where the textbook usually loses you.
PL. 05
Scholar & Presentations
Slide decks and papers built for postgraduate seminars and journal clubs.
PL. 06
Exam Topics
A running checklist for the postgraduate viva — tick items off as you cover them.
Written by one clinician, for the next one.
No editorial board, no ads — just thirty years of clinic notes made public.
TB
Prof. Dr. Balasubramanian Thiagarajan, M.S., D.L.O.
FORMER PROFESSOR & HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY — STANLEY MEDICAL COLLEGE
This site was first built in 2005 to give students and practitioners of otolaryngology a single, dependable place to study from. It has since been rebuilt for phones and tablets, but the intent hasn't changed: teaching material that's free to read, easy to search, and organised the way a ward round actually unfolds — ear first, then nose, then throat.
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