Types of hearing loss
This type of hearing loss is most common and occurs when the inner becomes damaged?
What is Sensorineural hearing loss?
Anatomy of the ear consists of what 3 parts?
1. Outer ear
2. Inner ear
3. middle ear
A disease that effects the inner ear and may be a result of fluid problems
What is Meniere's Disease
A doctor who treats the ear is called what?
What is an Otolaryngologist?
or ENT
The smallest bone in the body is in the ear. What is that bone called?
What is the stapes or "stirup bone"
(located in the middle ear)
This type of hearing loss can occur suddenly over the course of a few days
What is sudden sudden sensorinoeural hearing loss?
This fleshy part of the ear is called what
EARLOBE
The term ringing in the ears refers to what?
What is Tinnitus?
ear tubes called Eustachian tubes are small tubes surgically placed where?
What is the eardrum?
This type of hearing loss occurs in the outer or middle ear where sound waves are not able to carry all the way through the inner ear.
What is conductive hearing loss?
this separates the outer ear from the middle ear
EARDRUM
ear wax is also referred to as what?
cerumen
the cochlea is in what part of the ear?
Inner ear
This is a common middle ear infection . Children are most commonly affected by this.
What is Otitis media
true or false
the ear canal starts at the outer ear and ends at the eardrum
TRUE