anatomy
The function of the eustachian tube
What is to equalize middle ear pressure
The unit when discussing the amplitude of a sound
What is the decibel
The minimum degree required to practice as an audiologist
What is the AuD
The term for the lack of an ear canal
what is atresia
The three types of hearing loss
What are conductive, sensorineural, and mixed
The name of the ossicles
what is hertz
The minimum degree required to practice as an SLP
What is a master's
The name of the disorder that the cochlea is not fully formed
The most popular/common style of hearing aid
What is a receiver in the canal (RIC)
The ossicle that can most easily be seen with an otoscope
What is the malleus
What is 20-20,000 Hz
The type of doctorate audiologists earn
What is clinical
An acoustic neuroma grows on this cranial nerve
What is the 8th cranial nerve (vestibulocochlear)
Presbycusis causes this type of hearing loss
What is sensorineural
The bone behind our pinna which contains air cells to protect delicate inner ear structures
what is the mastoid bone
As mass increases, frequency _____.
What is decreases
The organization that oversees SLHS, especially SLPs
What is ASHA
What is otosclerosis
The presence of an air bone gap on an audiogram signifies this type of hearing loss
What is conductive
The membrane on which the organ of corti and the hair cells of the auditory system sit
What is the basilar membrane
Resonant frequency is _______
The frequency at which an object vibrates the most freely.
The SLHS profession that has the broadest scope
What is SLP
This is when the infection is in the external ear canal
what is otitis externa
The percent of infants born who are hard of hearing are born to parents with normal hearing
more than 90%