The Pressure is On!
VIII Nerve and Beyond
Auditory Disorders
Vestibular System
Hodgepodge
100
The inverse of admittance.
What is impedance?
100
The central auditory pathway maintains this of the auditory system.
What is tonotopic organization?
100
The three canals housed in the temporal bone used to help us maintain our position in space.
What are the semicircular canals?
100
Allows us to track a visual target in a smooth and continuous manner.
What is smooth pursuit?
100
When an audiologist reuses a contaminated instrument on a second patient
What is indirect contact transmission?
200
Technique used to equalize abnormally negative ear pressure.
What is the valsalva?
200
This term describes a nerve fiber's ability to cross over from one side to the other.
What is decussation?
200
An asymptomatic congenital malformation typically a red flag for possible inner ear problems.
What are pre-auricular pits/tags?
200
The rate or change in motion carrying us in an angular motion.
What is angular acceleration?
200
The thresholds for these tend to be 70-80 dB above pure tone thresholds.
What are acoustic reflex thresholds?
300
The x axis on a tympanogram graph represents this.
What is ear canal pressure?
300
The portion of the central auditory system that mediates the reflex activity of the middle ear muscles.
What is the superior olivary complex?
300
The thickening or scarring the the TM.
What is tympanosclerosis?
300
These make up the multisensory phenomenon we call balance.
What are the vestibular, visual and somatosensory systems?
300
This test uses two different tones presented simultaneously to elicit a response from the cochlea.
What are distortion product OAEs?
400
Measured by determining the point at which the pressure in the ear canal is equal to the pressure in the middle ear.
What is tympanometry?
400
This landmark is located in the midbrain and is the largest of the auditory structures
What is the inferior colliculus?
400
The surgical treatment involving the placement of a prosthesis.
What is a stapendectomy?
400
The result of displaced crystals from the utricle in one of the semicircular canals.
What is Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo?
400
This evoked potential can be used as a screening or a diagnostic procedure and is often used with newborns.
What is an auditory brainstem response?
500
This test result reveals normal admittance, normal ear canal volume and abnormal pressure.
What is a type C tympanogram?
500
Auditory information is processed on this portion of the cerebral cortex.
What is Heschl's Gyrus?
500
NAIDS, Diuretics, Antibiotics, Chemotherapeutic agents.
What are ototoxic medications?
500
An inflammatory infection resulting in a unilateral vestibular weakness.
What is vestibular neuronitis?
500
You are always 'on the clock' with this special population and positive reinforcement should always be provided.
What is the pediatric population?
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