Acquired Congenital Hearing Loss - correct answers -Loss present at birth that has progressed over time.
Acute Suppurative Otitis Media - correct answers -Middle Ear infection more severe shorter duration.
Type B Tymp
Aero Otitis Media - Barotrauma - correct answers -Injury resulting from changes in ambient air pressure
between outer and middle ear.
Malfunctioning Eustachian Tube
Alaising - correct answers -an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable (or aliases
of one another) when sampled.
Aphasia - correct answers -Communication problems with both receptive and expressive
Articulation Curve - correct answers -Correct percentage of words a listener can identify as the words
are presented-also called the speech audiogram.
Asymmetrical Hearing Loss - correct answers -Loss in both ears but one is worse than the other
Atresia - correct answers -Closed Ear Canal
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, Auditory Deprivation - correct answers -The longer we go with a hearing impairment, without getting
that information to where it belongs the more prone we become to permanently loose our ability to
discriminate certain speech cues.
Causes of tinnitus - correct answers -Sudden exposure to loud noise, long time exposure to loud noise,
physical trama to head or neck, Hypertension, Acoustic Neroma, thyroid disease, vacular disorder, TMJ
disorder, Ear infection, impacted cerumen, Nutricianal dificiency, Aneurysm, MS, prescription drugs
Central Deafness - correct answers -hearing loss or impairment resulting from defects in the central
nervous system (as in the auditory cortex) rather than in the ear itself or the auditory nerve—compare
conduction deafness, nerve deafness. Damage or disorder within brain stem, tumor or abscess
Central Masking - correct answers -When masking is presented to the non-test ear (NTE) it may cause a
shift in the test ear. What is that called?
Cerumen - correct answers -Ear wax
Cholesteatoma - correct answers -Tumor in Middle Ear. May perforate TM into External Ear Canal
Chronic Otitis Externa - correct answers -Chronic Infection with swelling & secretion from Yellow to
Green
Complex Sound - correct answers -a sound composed of a number of sounds of different frequencies.
Conductive Hearing loss - correct answers -Obstruction or breakdown in Outer and/0r Middle Ear.
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Acute Suppurative Otitis Media - correct answers -Middle Ear infection more severe shorter duration.
Type B Tymp
Aero Otitis Media - Barotrauma - correct answers -Injury resulting from changes in ambient air pressure
between outer and middle ear.
Malfunctioning Eustachian Tube
Alaising - correct answers -an effect that causes different signals to become indistinguishable (or aliases
of one another) when sampled.
Aphasia - correct answers -Communication problems with both receptive and expressive
Articulation Curve - correct answers -Correct percentage of words a listener can identify as the words
are presented-also called the speech audiogram.
Asymmetrical Hearing Loss - correct answers -Loss in both ears but one is worse than the other
Atresia - correct answers -Closed Ear Canal
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, Auditory Deprivation - correct answers -The longer we go with a hearing impairment, without getting
that information to where it belongs the more prone we become to permanently loose our ability to
discriminate certain speech cues.
Causes of tinnitus - correct answers -Sudden exposure to loud noise, long time exposure to loud noise,
physical trama to head or neck, Hypertension, Acoustic Neroma, thyroid disease, vacular disorder, TMJ
disorder, Ear infection, impacted cerumen, Nutricianal dificiency, Aneurysm, MS, prescription drugs
Central Deafness - correct answers -hearing loss or impairment resulting from defects in the central
nervous system (as in the auditory cortex) rather than in the ear itself or the auditory nerve—compare
conduction deafness, nerve deafness. Damage or disorder within brain stem, tumor or abscess
Central Masking - correct answers -When masking is presented to the non-test ear (NTE) it may cause a
shift in the test ear. What is that called?
Cerumen - correct answers -Ear wax
Cholesteatoma - correct answers -Tumor in Middle Ear. May perforate TM into External Ear Canal
Chronic Otitis Externa - correct answers -Chronic Infection with swelling & secretion from Yellow to
Green
Complex Sound - correct answers -a sound composed of a number of sounds of different frequencies.
Conductive Hearing loss - correct answers -Obstruction or breakdown in Outer and/0r Middle Ear.
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