What are the best words to convey the same meaning of scab and dead skin, respectively? I aggressively cleaned my ear canal with my finger and the canal got scratched. After several weeks elapsed, it got naturally healed but I cannot hear clearly probably because of the dead skin or scab abandoned inside. I want to remove it in an ear-nose-throat clinic and to explain it to the doctor. I am afraid if I make use of a wrong word and makes the doctor confused. I have tried to use a free online dictionary, I got the following results. * dead skin : * scab : What are the best words to convey the same meaning of scab and dead skin, respectively?

You have already got the best word for "scab".

The word I would suggest for "dead skin" is []{}. []{}[]{} sounds more like a dictionary definition. It is not something a patient would say.

That said, you could just copy the following and show it to your doctor.