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Earring
1) Helix/Cartilage, 2) Industrial, 3) Rook, 4) Daith, 5) Tragus, 6) Snug, 7) Conch, 8) Anti-Tragus, 9) Lobe
1) Helix/Cartilage, 2) Industrial, 3) Rook, 4) Daith, 5) Tragus, 6) Snug, 7) Conch, 8) Anti-Tragus, 9) Lobe
Location Ear
Jewelry Captive bead ring, barbell, circular barbell, flesh plug
Healing 6 to 8 weeks
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Earrings are jewelry attached to the ear through a piercing in the earlobe or some other external part of the ear (except in the case of clip earrings, which clip onto the lobe). The ear is the sense organ that detects Sounds The Vertebrate ear shows a common biology from Fish to Humans with variations A captive bead ring (CBR (also ball closure ring, captive hoop, or less frequently captive ball ring) is a common example of Body piercing jewelry Barbell style Piercing jewelry is composed of a straight bar and with a bead on each end one or both beads unscrewable for removal and/or changing of the beads Barbell style Piercing jewelry is composed of a straight bar and with a bead on each end one or both beads unscrewable for removal and/or changing of the beads A plug (sometimes earplug) in the context of Body modification, is a short cylindrical piece of Jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge Body Body piercing is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the Human body, creating an opening in which jewelry may be worn On the Ear of Humans and many other animals the earlobe('lobulus auriculæ' sometimes simply lobe or lobule) is the soft lower part of the external ear Earrings are worn by both sexes. In western cultures, earrings have traditionally been worn primarily by females, although in recent decades, ear piercing has also become popular among males in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Common locations other than the earlobe for piercings include the rook, tragus, and across the helix (see image at right). A rook is the name for a Piercing on the anti-helix of the Ear. The tragus piercing is a perforation of the tragus for the purpose of inserting and wearing a piece of Jewelry. The prominent rim of the auricula is called the helix. Where the helix turns downward behind a small tubercle is frequently seen the auricular tubercle of Darwin The simple term “ear piercing” usually refers to an earlobe piercing, whereas piercings in the upper part of the external ear are often referred to as “cartilage piercings. ” Cartilage piercings are more complex to perform than earlobe piercings and take longer to heal.

Earring components may be made of any number of materials, including metal, plastic, glass, precious stones, and beads. The M acro E xpansion T emplate A ttribute L anguage complements TAL, providing macros which allow the reuse of code across Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic organic solid materials suitable for the manufacture of industrial products Glass in the common sense refers to a Hard, Brittle, transparent Solid, such as that used for Windows many A gemstone or gem, also called a precious or semi-precious stone, is a piece of attractive Mineral, which &mdash when cut and polished &mdash A bead is a small decorative object that is pierced for threading or stringing Designs range from small loops and studs to large plates and dangling items. The size is ultimately limited by the physical capacity of the earlobe to hold the earring without tearing. However, heavy earrings worn over extended periods of time may lead to stretching of the earlobe and the piercing.

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History

Golden Elamite earring.
Golden Elamite earring. Elam is the name of an ancient civilization located in what is now southwest Iran.

Ear piercing is one of the oldest known forms of body modification, with artistic and written references from cultures around the world dating back to early history. One of the early signs of earrings worn by males are from the walls of Perspolis in ancient Persia, the carved images of the soldiers from various parts of the Persian Empire which are displayed on some of the surviving walls of the palace showing the soldiers wearing an ear ring. Persepolis ( Old Persian: Pārsa, Modern Persian: تخت جمشید/پارسه Takht-e Jamshid or Chehel Minar) was the ceremonial The Persian Empire was a series of Iranian empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland and beyond in Western Asia

Pierced ears were popular in the United States through the early 1920s, then fell into disfavor among women due to the rising popularity of clip-on earrings. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the However, there continued to be a small male following, particularly among sailors, where a pierced earlobe often meant that the wearer had sailed around the world or had crossed the equator. In addition if a non service member sailor was involved and survived a sinking ship, they were often seen wearing an earring in the left ear. There was also a long-held belief that puncturing the earlobe was beneficial to increasing the acuity of eyesight (see acupuncture) or of hearing (perhaps through resonance). In Psychology, visual perception is the ability to interpret information from Visible light reaching the Eyes The resulting Perception is also History Antiquity In China, the practice of acupuncture can perhaps be traced as far back as In Physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to Oscillate at maximum Amplitude at certain frequencies, known as the system's

Ear piercing continued to be practiced by Western women of various cultures, e. g. , Hispanic, but was less common in Anglo-based cultures until the 1960s. Hispanic (hispano hispánico hispânico Hispānus adjective from ''Hispānia'', the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula) is a term that historically At that time, the practice re-emerged, but since there did not exist a commercial market, most ear piercings were done at home. Teenage girls were known to hold ear piercing parties, where they performed the procedure on one another. Such an event is depicted in the 1978 motion picture Grease, where Sandy (Olivia Newton-John), the leading lady, is pierced by her friends. Year 1978 ( MCMLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar) This article is about the stage musical For the 1978 film of the same name see Grease (film. Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE (born September 26 1948) is a Grammy Award -winning and Golden Globe -nominated English-born

Pairs of earrings for sale at a roadside stand in Costa Rica.
Pairs of earrings for sale at a roadside stand in Costa Rica.
Pairs of earrings for sale at a roadside stand in Costa Rica.
Pairs of earrings for sale at a roadside stand in Costa Rica.

Ear piercing became commonly available in physician offices. Some of the earliest commercial, non-medical locations for getting an ear piercing appeared in the 1970s at Manhattan jewelry stores, although the overall commercial market was still in its infancy. Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York By the 1980s, ear piercing was common among many females, thus creating a broader market for the procedure. Department stores throughout the country would hold ear piercing events, sponsored by earring manufacturers. At these events, a nurse or other trained person would perform the procedure, either pushing a sharpened and sterilized starter earring through the earlobe by hand, or using an ear-piercing instrument modified from the design used by physicians.

In the late 1960s, ear piercing began to make inroads into the male population through the hippie and gay communities. The Hippie Subculture was originally a Youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world In the English language, gay is an Adjective that in modern usage refers to Homosexuality. In the late 1970s, amateur piercings - often with safety pins and multiple piercings - became popular in the punk rock community. By the 1980s, the trend for male popular music performers to have pierced ears helped establish a fashion trend for men, which was later adopted by many professional athletes. Popular music is Music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more A sportsperson ( British and American English) or athlete (principally American English is any person who participates regularly in a Sport. British males started piercing both ears in the 1980s; George Michael of Wham! was a prominent example. Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου (born 25 June 1963 best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning "Wham" redirects here For other uses see Wham (disambiguation. The heavily jeweled Mr. T was an early example of an American celebrity wearing earrings in both ears, although this trend did not become popular with mainstream American males until the 1990s. Mr T (born Laurence Tureaud; May 21 1952) is an American Actor known for his roles as Sgt

In various Western cultures, piercing the left vs. the right ear alone has sometimes been popularly perceived to be associated with a particular sexual orientation (or with an active vs. Sexual orientation is believed to refer to "an enduring pattern of emotional romantic and/or sexual attractions to men women or both sexes passive role in a homosexual relationship) [Google search]. Homosexuality refers to sexual behavior with or attraction to people of the same sex or to a Homosexual orientation. However, due to the lack of uniformity, such generalizations are essentially meaningless.

Multiple piercings in one or both ears first emerged in mainstream America in the 1970s. Initially, the trend was for females to wear a second set of earrings in the earlobes, or for males to double-pierce a single earlobe. Asymmetric styles with more and more piercings became popular, eventually leading to the cartilage piercing trend.

A variety of specialized cartilage piercings have since become popular. These include the tragus piercing, antitragus piercing, rook piercing, industrial piercing, helix piercing, orbital piercing, daith piercing, and conch piercing. The tragus piercing is a perforation of the tragus for the purpose of inserting and wearing a piece of Jewelry. An Antitragus piercing is a perforation of the inner ear cartilage for the purpose of inserting and wearing a piece of jewelry A rook is the name for a Piercing on the anti-helix of the Ear. An industrial piercing, sometimes called scaffold piercing (UK or construction piercing, is any two pierced holes connected with a single straight piece of jewelry The helix piercing is a perforation of the helix or upper ear (cartilage for the purpose of inserting and wearing a piece of Jewelry. An orbital piercing is two Piercings connected by one piece of jewellery generally in the area by one's Cartilage. A daith piercing is a perforation of the ear cartilage for the purpose of inserting and wearing a piece of jewelry. A conch piercing is a perforation of the ear cartilage for the purpose of inserting and wearing a piece of jewelry In addition, earlobe stretching, while common in primitive cultures for thousands of years, started to appear in Western civilization in the 1990s, and is now a fairly common sight. Stretching (often colloquially referred to as gauging) in the context of Body piercing, is the deliberate expansion of a healed Fistula (hole in However, these forms of ear piercing are uncommon compared to standard ear piercing.

India

In southern India, most children, both boys and girls, will get their ears pierced in religious ceremony before they are about 5 years old[1]. South India is the area encompassing India 's states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu as well as the union Infants may get their ears pierced as early as seven months.

Types of earrings

Modern standard pierced earrings

An earring with an intricate design
An earring with an intricate design
Silver hoop earring.
Silver hoop earring.

Body piercing jewelry used as earrings

A navel curve used as an earring with a green gemmed ear stud above it.
A navel curve used as an earring with a green gemmed ear stud above it.

Body piercing jewelry is often used for ear piercings, and is selected for a variety of reasons including the availability of larger gauges, better piercing techniques, and a disdain for mainstream jewelry. Body piercing jewellery is Jewellery manufactured specifically for use in Body piercing.

16mm Flesh Tunnel
16mm Flesh Tunnel
Stretched ear piercing without jewelry
Stretched ear piercing without jewelry

Clip-on and other non-pierced earrings

Several varieties of non-pierced earrings exist.

Permanent earrings

Whereas most earrings worn in the Western world are designed to be removed fairly easily to be changed at will, earrings can also be permanent (non-removable). They were once used as a mark of slavery or ownership (e. g. , see Ex.21:2-6, Deut.15:16-17). They appear today in the form of larger gauge rings which are difficult or impossible for the wearer to remove without assistance. Occasionally, hoop earrings are permanently installed by the use of solder. A solder is a fusible metal Alloy with a melting point or melting range of 90 to 450 ° C (200 to 840 ° F) used in a process called [2] , though this poses some risks due to toxicity of metals used in soldering and the risk of burns from the heat involved. Besides permanent installations, locking earrings are occasionally worn by people of both sexes, due to their personal symbolism or erotic value

Ear piercing

Pierced ears are earlobes or the cartilage portion of the external ears which have had one or more holes created in them for the wearing of earrings. Cartilage is a type of dense Connective tissue. It is composed of specialized cells called chondrocytes that produce a large amount of extracellular matrix The holes may be permanent or temporary. The holes become permanent when a fistula is created by scar tissue forming around the initial earring. In medicine a fistula (pl fistulas or fistulae is an abnormal connection or passageway between two Epithelium -lined organs or vessels that normally do not connect

Piercing techniques

A variety of techniques are used to pierce ears, ranging from "do it yourself" methods using household items to medically sterile methods using specialized equipment.

A long-standing home method involves using ice as a local anesthetic, a sewing needle as a puncture instrument, a burning match and rubbing alcohol for disinfection, and a semi-soft object, such as a potato, cork, or rubber eraser, as a push point. Sewing thread may be drawn through the piercing and tied, as a device for keeping the piercing open during the healing process. This article is about the fiber product For the type of joke see Shaggy dog story. Alternatively, a gold stud or wire earring may be directly inserted into the fresh piercing as the initial retaining device.

Another method for piercing ears, first made popular in the 1960s, was the use of sharpened spring-loaded earrings known as self-piercers, trainers, or sleepers, which gradually pushed through the earlobe. However, these could slip from their initial placement position, often resulting in more discomfort, and many times would not go all the way through the earlobe without additional pressure being applied. This method has fallen into disuse due to the popularity of faster and more successful piercing techniques.

An ear being pierced with an ear piercing instrument.
An ear being pierced with an ear piercing instrument.
Pierced ear with traditional starter stud
Pierced ear with traditional starter stud

Ear piercing instruments, sometimes called ear piercing guns, were originally developed for physician use but with modifications became available in retail settings. An ear piercing instrument (commonly referred to as a piercing gun or an ear piercing gun) is a device designed to pierce Earlobes by forcing Today more and more people in the Western world have their ears pierced with an ear piercing instrument in specialty jewelry or accessory stores, or at home using disposable ear piercing instruments. Two of the most popular systems are the Studex 75 and the Inverness system. An earlobe piercing performed with an ear piercing instrument is often described as feeling similar to being pinched, or being snapped by a rubber band. Piercing 'guns' should never be used on any other part of the body other than the ear lobe.

A safer and less painful alternative and growing practice is to use a hollow piercing needle, as is used for body piercing. Body piercing is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the Human body, creating an opening in which jewelry may be worn This technique is much safer, as the sanitized instrument is disposed immediately after use. Piercing machines can spread disease because they are reused to pierce multiple people and cannot be autoclaved. An autoclave is a pressurized device designed to heat aqueous solutions above their Boiling point at normal atmospheric pressure to achieve sterilization It is much better for the ear (or any part of the body) to be pierced with a sharp instrument (a needle) as opposed to the blunt backing of the earring (as happens with a piercing 'gun'). It is less painful and promotes faster healing.

In tribal cultures and among some neo-primitive body piercing enthusiasts, the piercing is made using other tools, such as animal or plant organics.

Initial healing time for an earlobe piercing performed with an ear piercing instrument is typically 6-8 weeks. After that time, earrings can be changed, but if the hole is left unfilled for an extended period of time, there is some danger of the piercing closing. Piercing professionals recommend wearing earrings in the newly pierced ears for at least 6 months, and sometimes even a full year. Cartilage piercing will usually require more healing time than earlobe piercing, sometimes 2-3 times as long. After healing, earlobe piercings will shrink to smaller gauges in the prolonged absence of earrings, but may never completely disappear.

Health risks

The health risks with conventional earlobe piercing are common but tend to be minor, particularly if proper technique and hygienic procedures are followed. One study found that up to 35% of persons with pierced ears had one or more complications, including minor infection (77% of pierced ear sites with complications), allergic reaction (43%), keloids (2. An infection is the detrimental Colonization of a host Organism by a foreign Species. Allergy is a disorder of the Immune system often also referred to as Atopy. A keloid is a type of Hypertrophic scar with mainly type I and some type III collagen which results in an overgrowth of tissue at the site of a healed skin injury 5%), and traumatic tearing (2. 5%). [3] Pierced ears are a significant risk factor for contact allergies to the nickel in jewelry. A risk factor is a variable associated with an increased risk of Disease or Infection. [4] Earlobe tearing, during the healing period or after healing is complete, can be minimized by not wearing earrings, especially wire-based dangle earrings, during activities in which they are likely to become snagged, such as while playing sports. Also, larger gauge jewelery will lessen the chance of the earring being torn out.

With cartilage piercing, the blunt force of an ear piercing instrument will traumatize the cartilage, and therefore make healing more difficult. Also, because there is substantially less blood flow in ear cartilage than in the earlobe, infection is a much more serious issue. There have been several documented cases of people developing severe infections of the upper ear following piercing with an ear piercing instrument, which required courses of antibiotics and/or surgery to clear up. ). [5],[6]

For all ear piercings, the use of a sterilized hollow piercing needle tends to minimize the trauma to the tissue, and minimize the chances of contracting a bacterial infection during the procedure. The Bacteria ( singular: bacterium) are a large group of unicellular Microorganisms Typically a few Micrometres in length bacteria have As with any invasive procedure, there is always a risk of infection from blood borne pathogens such as hepatitis and HIV. Hepatitis (plural hepatitides) implies injury to the Liver characterized by the presence of Inflammatory cells in the tissue of Human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) is a Lentivirus (a member of the Retrovirus family that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome However, modern piercing techniques make this risk extremely small (the risk being greater to the piercer than to the piercee due to the potential splash-back of blood). There has never been a documented case of HIV transmission due to ear/body piercing or tattooing, although there have been instances of the Hepatitis B virus being transmitted through these practices. [7]

Further reading

External links

References

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  2. ^ BBC Sport Online. No earrings give Cordone midas touch. Retrieved on 2000-08-27. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan
  3. ^ Meltzer DI (2005). "Complications of body piercing". Am Fam Physician 72 (10): 2029–34. PMID 16342832.  
  4. ^ Thyssen JP, Linneberg A, Menné T, Johansen JD (2007). "The epidemiology of contact allergy in the general population—prevalence and main findings". Contact Dermatitis 57 (5): 287–99. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0536.2007.01220.x. A digital object identifier ( DOI) is a permanent identifier given to an Electronic document. PMID 17937743.  
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  6. ^ Manca, Donna P, Levy, Michelle, Tariq, Khalida (2006-08-10). "Case Report: Infected ear cartilage piercing". Canadian Family Physician ¤ Le Médecin de Famille Canadien 52 (8): 974-975. PMID 1781501.  
  7. ^ CDC Fact Sheet: HIV and Its Transmission

Dictionary

earring

-noun

  1. A piece of jewelry worn on the ear.
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