Mechanical energy that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a medium (such as water or air)
What is Sound?
A graphic representation of the relation of vibration frequency and the minimum sound intensity for hearing
What is an Audiogram?
A harmless variant of a pathogen that stimulates a host‘s immune system to mount defenses against the pathogen
What is a vaccine?
A branch of medical science that deals with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease in a population
What is Epidemiology?
The visible portion of the ear that collects and directs sound waves toward the tympanic membrane by way of a canal which extends inward through the temporal bone
What is the Outer ear?
A type of hearing loss or impairment resulting from problems with the auditory nerves
What is Sensorineural hearing loss?
A procedure that presents the immune system with a harmless variant of a pathogen, thereby stimulating the immune system to mount a long-term defense against the pathogen
What is a Vaccination?
Something that affects a atypically large number of individuals within a population, community, or region at the same time
What is an Epidemic?
The portion of the ear containing a chain of the ossicles that extends from the tympanic membrane to the oval window and transmits vibrations to the inner ear
What is the Middle ear?
What is Conductive hearing loss?
A DNA molecule made in vitro with segments from different sources
What is Recombinant DNA?
A type of epidemiological study where a group of exposed individuals and a group of non exposed individuals are followed over time to determine the incidence of disease
What is a Cohort Study?
An essential part of the vertebrae organ of hearing and equilibrium that includes the vestibule, the semicircular canals, and the cochlea
What is the Inner ear?
An electric prosthetic device that enables individuals with sensorineural hearing loss to recognize some sounds and that consists of an external microphone and speech processor that receive and convert sound waves
What is a Cochlear Implant?
What is Plasmid?
A type of epidemiologic study where a group of individuals with the diseases (cases) are compared to individuals without the disease (controls)
What is a Case-Control study?
a degradative enzyme that recognizes specific nucleotide sequences and cuts up DNA
What is Restriction enzyme?