RGD uses the Human Disease Ontology (DO, https://disease-ontology.org/) for disease curation across species. RGD automatically downloads each new release of the ontology on a monthly basis. Some additional terms which are required for RGD's curation purposes but are not currently covered in the official version of DO have been added. As corresponding terms are added to DO, these custom terms are retired and the DO terms substituted in existing annotations and subsequently used for curation.
A eustachian tube disorder which involves inflammation of the mucous membrane of the cartilagenous portion of the eustachian tube caused by acute nasopharyngitis, infection from some pathogenic microbes or trauma of the tube. (DO)