HEARING INSTRUMENT SPECIALIST EXAM PREP UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

HEARING INSTRUMENT SPECIALIST EXAM PREP
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS

Question:
1. Define Otorrhea
Answer:
Fluid that is draining into the external auditory canal

Question:
2. Define Aural Fullness
Answer:
A sense of pressure in the ear & can be a sign of fluid in the middle ear

Question:
3. Define Otalgia
Answer:
Pain in the ear (often comes from a different cranial nerve)

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4. Idiopathic
Answer:
Unknown cause of hearing loss

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5. Location of Outer Ear Disorders
Answer:
Auricle or the external ear canal

Question:
6. Define Anotia
Answer:
absence of pinna

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7. Define Preauricular Pit \ Sinus
Answer:
A small dimple anterior to the tragus

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8. Define Mictrotia
Answer:
Abnormally small or malformed Auricles

, Question:
9. Define Preauricular Appendage \ Tag
Answer:
A small skin growth anterior to the tragus

Question:
10. Define Auricular Bematoma
Answer:
Trauma due to blunt forces that causes internal bleeding in the auricle

Question:
11. What caused Acquires Auricular Disorder
Answer:
Some form of trauma

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12. Define Neoplasms
Answer:
Abnormal tissue growth or tumors that invade the auricle

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13. Define Atresia
Answer:
Absence of an external auditory canal

Question:
14. Type of hearing loss - Atresia
Answer:
Maximum Conduction HL (50-60dB)

Question:
15. Define Impacted Cerumen
Answer:
An accumulation of cerumen that blocks off ear canal

Question:
16. Type of hearing loss
-Impacted Cerumen
Answer:
Mild Conduction HL in the high frequency

Question:
17. Define Foreign Object
Answer:
Objects that finds it's way into the ear