Parts of the Ear
The three sections of the ear.
What are the Outer Ear, Middle Ear, and Inner ear?
The term that refers to a healthcare professional that specializes in ears.
What is an Audiologist?
The type of hearing loss that becomes worse over time.
What is Progressive Hearing Loss?
The name of the hearing device that does not require surgery to be used.
What are Hearing Aids?
The scientific name of the outer part of the ear.
What is the Auricle?
What is the Auditory Nerve?
The chart that shows the results of a pure-tone hearing test.
What is an Audiogram?
The type of hearing loss that can occur in the Inner Ear.
What is Sensorineural Hearing Loss?
The name of the passage that a hearing aid utilizes in order to allow the wearer to hear better.
What is the External Ear Canal?
The popular acronym used to refer to the three bones in the middle ear.
What is "MIS-HAS?"
The names of the three bones in the middle ear.
What are the Malleus (Hammer), Incus (Anvil), and Stapes (Stirrup)?
The section on a hearing test graph where human conversational speech sounds are.
What is the Speech Banana?
The type of hearing loss that can occur in the Middle Ear and/or Outer Ear.
What is Conductive Hearing Loss?
The name of the hearing device that hooks up to a specific part of the ear that's located in the Inner Ear.
What is a Cochlear Implant?
The term used to refer to hearing loss in both ears.
What is Bilateral Hearing Loss?
The part of your ear that equalizes the pressure in the middle ear.
What is the Eustachian Tube?
The unit that is measured on the horizontal axis of an audiogram.
What are Hertz (Hz)?
The names of all seven types of hearing loss (including "Normal")
What are Normal, Slight, Mild, Moderate, Moderately-Severe, Severe, and Profound?
The name of the part inside the inner ear that a certain hearing device (that requires surgery) is connected to.
What is the Cochlea?
The scientific name of the ear canal.
What is the External Auditory Meatus?
What is the term that refers to the three bones in the middle ear?
What are the Auditory Ossicles?
The letters that refer to the Left and Right ear on a hearing test graph.
The term used to refer to hearing loss in only one ear.
What is Unilateral Hearing Loss?
The range of severity of hearing loss an adult needs in order to qualify for a cochlear implant.
What is Moderate-Profound Hearing Loss?
The range of decibels that the speech banana is inside of.
What is "10-70 decibels (dB)?"