With the use of this tool, the examiner can visualize teh external auditory canal, the eardrum, or tympanic membrane.
What is the otoscope?
100
Type of hearing loss that is caused by anoxia or trauma in early infancy.
What is Congenital Hearing Loss?
100
A hearing device for the profoundly deaf.
What is a Cochlear Implant?
100
The external ear, also known as the pinna.
What is the Auricle?
100
Most famous blind-deaf girl that learned language.
Who is Helen Keller?
200
Method of assessing auditory acuity by placing a tuning fork at the top of the head.
What is Weber's Test?
200
Also called "swimmer's ear" caused by allergy, bacteria, fungi, viruses, and/or trauma.
What is External Otitis?
200
Several operative procedures on the eardrum or ossicles that involves elevating the head of the bed and facing the operative side upward post-operatively.
What is Tympanoplasty?
200
Part of the inner ear, associated with the sense of balance.
What is the Semicircular Canal?
200
Famous German composer and pianoist who has written 9 symphonies.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
300
Test that involves having the patient repeat what is said to them.
What is the Whispered Voice Test?
300
In children this is shorter and straighter providing easier access for organisms to travel to the ear.
What is Eustachian Tube?
300
Placed in the ear canal to maintain continous absorption of medication.
What is a Wick?
300
The organ of hearing.
What is the organ of Corti?
300
Portrayed by Jamie Foxx, a famous muscian and pianist that shaped the sound of rhythm and blues.
Who is Ray Charles?
400
Test that measures the patient's ability to perform specific tasks with eyes open and then with eyes closed.
What is the Romberg's Test?
400
An infection of the mastoid bones.
What is Mastoiditis?
400
Condition if experienced, the patient should lie down immediately and hold head in one position.
What is Vertigo?
400
Fluid found in the bony labyrinth.
What is Perilymph?
400
A famous artist who painted a mural of a large group of water lillies for the Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris.
Who is Claude Monet?
500
Test done to measure the degree of hearing loss and as a screening test for hearing acuity.
What is Audiometry?
500
Cause is unknown, with sign and symptoms of nystagmus, nausea/vomiting, tinnitus, and sense of fullness in the ear.
What is Meniere's Disease?
500
The diet that may be ordered for a client diagnosed with Meniere's Disease.
What is a Low-Salt Diet?
500
The three ossicles.
What is Malleous, Incus, and Stapes?
500
Oscar winning deaf actress who starred in the film Children of a Lesser God.