LING 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Otitis Media, Audiometry, Eustachian Tube
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A branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. Healthcare professional who provide patient-centered care in the prevention, identification, diagnosis, and evidence-based treatment of hearing, balance, and other auditory disorders for people of all ages. The degree of the hearing loss (in db hl) The site of lesion in the auditory system. The audiogram (audiometry) measure hearing acuity for variations in sound intensity and pitch and for tonal purity, involving thresholds and differing frequencies. The tympanogram (tympanometry) an examination used to test the condition of the middle ear, and mobility of the eardrum, and the conduction bones by creating variations of air pressure in the ear canal. Oto-acoustic emissions (oae"s) measure of hair cell function. Auditory brainstem response (abr) test gives information about the inner ear (cochlear) and brain pathways for hearing. Conductive hearing loss affects the passage of sound between the ear drum and the inner ear.
