# Long ear

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'''Long ear''' is a condition in which the [ears](/source/ears) are unusually long from top to bottom. This is defined as the median longitudinal ear length being over 2 [SD](/source/standard_deviation) from the mean external ear length (superior to inferior aspect).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Long ear (Concept Id: C1848657) |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/medgen/338515 |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ear, Long |url=https://elementsofmorphology.nih.gov/index.cgi?tid=2028381d5c61842a |access-date=2023-12-04 |website=elementsofmorphology.nih.gov}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Talbot |first=Eugene Solomon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DL9pAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22long+ears%22+pathology&pg=RA2-PA18 |title=Developmental Pathology |date=1905 |language=en}}</ref>

== Conditions ==
Long ear is seen in:<ref name=":0" />
* [Cohen-Gibson syndrome](/source/Cohen-Gibson_syndrome)
* [Congenital disorder of glycosylation](/source/Congenital_disorder_of_glycosylation), type Iw, [autosomal dominant](/source/autosomal_dominant)
* [Diets-Jongmans syndrome](/source/Diets-Jongmans_syndrome)
* [Faundes-Banka syndrome](/source/Faundes-Banka_syndrome)
* Schinzel [phocomelia](/source/phocomelia) syndrome

== See also ==
* [Macrotia](/source/Macrotia)

== References ==
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Category:Anatomical pathology

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