Can You Hear Me Now?
Common name for tympanic membrane.
What is the ear drum.
Mechanical energy transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a medium is called.
What is sound.
Sounds waves enter the ear and travel through __________. Which causes vibrations in the eardrum.
What is auditory canal?
In a Rinne test, bone conduction is assessed using what bone?
What is Mastoid.
What are the 3 ossicles?
What is malleus, incus, and stapes.
What portion of the ear contains a chain of three ossicles that extends from the tympanic membrane to the oval window?
What is middle ear.
The frequency or how rapidly sound waves vibrate each other determines the _____________ of sound.
What is pitch.
The vibration of the eardrum causes the bones in the ____________ ear to move back and forth.
What is middle?
A Rinne test is primarily used to evaluate what?
What is the difference between air and bone conduction hearing.
What structure of the middle ear transmits vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear?
What is ossicles.
What portion of the ear collects and directs sound waves toward the tympanic membrane?
What is Outer ear?
Hearing loss or impairment resulting from interference with the transmission of sound waves to the cochlea is known as ____________________ hearing loss.
What is Conductive.
The inner end of the _________ moves in and out of the oval window at the same rate the eardrum is vibrating.
What is stapes?
Air conduction is heard twice as long as bone conduction so the patient will be diagnosed with no hearing loss, conductive hearing loss, or sensorineural hearing loss?
What is no hearing loss.
What is otosclerosis.
What portion of the ear has the essential part of the vertebrate organ of hearing and equilibrium that includes the vestibule, semicircular canals, and the cochlea?
What is Inner ear?
Hearing loss or impairment resulting from problems with auditory nerves is known as _________________ hearing loss.
What is sensorineural?
The movement against the oval window causes motion in the fluid that fills the _____________.
What is the cochlea?
With a Rinne test, a tuning fork is heard longer through bone conduction than air conduction. The patient has no hearing loss, conductive hearing loss, or sensorineural hearing loss
What is conductive hearing loss.
An abnormality in the inner ear that is associated with a change in fluid volume within the labyrinth.
What is Meniere's Disease.
What is cochlear implants bypass damaged portions and hearing aids amplify sound.
A sensation of high-pitched ringing or buzzing in one or both ears.
What is tinnitus.
The movement of the fluid causes the hairs in the fluid to move. This movement stimulates the attached cell to send a tiny impulse along the _____________.
What is auditory nerve?
The primary purpose of which test is to assess speech understanding with background noise?
What is Speech-in-Noise Test.
What is hearing loss due to natural aging known as?
What is presbycusis.