Anatomy
The Auricle (pinna) & External Acoustic meatus (auditory canal)
What is the External (outer) Ear?
A thin flap of skin that stretches tight like a drum and vibrates when sound hits it.
What is the Tympanic membrane?
This term describes the hearing loss as mild, moderate, severe or profound.
What is the degree of hearing loss?
Fluid, typically secreted by the mucous membrane, getting “sucked into” the middle ear cavity
What is Otitis Media?
This professional works with people of all ages to treat communicative disorders including feeding and swallowing.
Who is a Speech-language Pathologist?
The three smallest bones in the human body.
What are the Malleus, Incus and Stapes?
A fluid-filled, spiral-shaped cavity found in the inner ear that plays a vital role in the sense of hearing
What is the Cochlea?
This term describes the hearing loss as conductive, sensorineural or mixed.
What is the type of hearing loss?
Difficulty interpreting auditory information in the absence of peripheral hearing disorder.
What is Auditory Processing Disorder?
At around this week of pregnancy, your unborn baby will start being able to hear sounds in your body like your heartbeat.
What is the 18th week?
Tectorial Membrane, stereocilia, inner and outer hair cells, Basilar Membrane
What is the Organ of Corti?
When these pressure (or sound) waves reach the ear, the ear "converts" this mechanical stimulus (pressure wave) into a nerve impulse (electrical signal) that the brain perceives as sound.
What is Auditory Transduction?
This can be used to test the hearing thresholds of both air conduction and bone conduction in the human ear.
What is Pure Tone Audiometry?
Normal outer hair cell function, but dyssynchronous auditory nerve response.
What is auditory neuropathy?
Who is Helen Keller?
Another name for the VIII cranial nerve.
What is the vestibulocochlear nerve?
What is the Oval Window?
This test is used to check the function of the middle (including the stapedius muscle) and inner ear and some of the central auditory pathway structures.
What is Acoustic Reflex Test?
This can be caused by a number of things, including broken or damaged hair cells in the part of the ear that receives sound (cochlea); changes in how blood moves through nearby blood vessels (carotid artery); problems with the joint of the jaw bone (temporomandibular joint); and problems with how the brain processes sound.
What is Tinnitus (tih-NITE-us)?
This term describes the condition when one is hearing voices speaking when there is no-one there.
What is auditory hallucination?
An opening that connects the middle ear with the nasal-sinus cavity.
What is the Eustachian Tube?
This occurs when stapes bone, in the middle ear, gets pulled due to the contraction of the stapedius muscle in response to sounds of sufficient intensity.
What is Acoustic Reflex?
This hearing loss can be caused by a variety of pathologies including infections, demyelinating diseases like multiple sclerosis, auditory neuropathy, or acoustic neuromas
What is retrocochlear hearing loss?
This surgical procedure is to create a hole in the ear drum to allow fluid that is trapped in the middle ear to drain out.
What is myringotomy?
This term is used to describe the capacity of the nervous system to modify itself, functionally and structurally, in response to experience and injury.
What is NEURALPLASTICITY?