Sound
Sound travels in _____ of pressure to get to a listener's ear.
What are waves?
This is the part of the body on which you can find the ear.
What is the head?
Sticking this in your ear may cause earwax to become even more impacted. It may also perforate your eardrum.
What is a Q-tip?
Name one source of sensorineural hearing loss.
What is acoustic trauma/noise, ototoxic drugs, aging?
This type of device, often used by people who have either conductive or mild/moderate sensorineural hearing loss, have recently been made available over the counter.
What is a hearing aid?
A sound wave's ______ is associated with the perceptual quality of pitch.
What is frequency?
We followed this popular Marvel superhero into the inner ear to investigate the fluids of the three canals
What is Antman?
This condition is considered a sign of honor and prestige amongst wrestlers, and it's caused by blunt force trauma to the head.
What is cauliflower ear?
What SpongeBob character did we say might have sensorineural hearing loss?
Who is Painty the Pirate?
You can conduct the Weber and Rinne tests (as demonstrated in class) with this instrument.
What is a tuning fork?
If actor and singer Jonathan Groff is singing at you, the air molecule near his mouth will end up ______ as sound travels to your ear.
What is near his face?
These three bones are the smallest bones in your body.
What are the ossicles?
Children more commonly get this condition relative to adults because their Eustachian tubes are more parallel to the ground at that age, making them less capable of draining effectively.
What is otitis media with effusion/glue ear/middle ear infection?
Whether or not someone gets noise-induced hearing loss mainly depends on these two factors concerning the noise they're exposed to.
What is duration and intensity/amplitude/loudness (how long and how loud)?
Cochlear implants are mainly used for ______ hearing loss because they act by sending electrical signals through electrodes implanted in the cochlea.
What is sensorineural hearing loss?
Sound will propagate faster through (WATER or STEEL) because the molecules are (CLOSER or FARTHER) apart.
What is steel and closer?
This part of the inner ear is able to lengthen or shorten in order to sharpen the tuning of your hearing. (It can also "dance" to music!) Be specific about which kind this one is!
What is an outer hair cell?
Conductive Hearing Loss Chris has been surfing daily for the past two years. Describe the condition that he might develop as a result of the cold water exposure.
This part of the hair cell may get disrupted during loud noises, causing hearing loss and temporary threshold shift, but it has the capability of growing back and restoring hearing.
What is a tip link?
If you're reading an audiogram and the air conduction trend line is separated from the bone conduction trend line by more than 15 dB, this person has ______ hearing loss.
What is conductive hearing loss?
If you're swimming in the ocean with your head underwater and you hear a whale that is also under water, sound is traveling to you through ______ conduction.
What is soft tissue conduction?
The scala media is filled with endolymph, which is high in _____ and low in ______
What is high in potassium, low in sodium?
One method to treat otosclerosis (abnormal bone growth/fusing in the middle ear) is to do a surgery where _______.
What is a stapectomy/stapedotomy - a surgery where the stapes is removed and replaced with a prosthesis?
Name or describe one kind of ototoxic drug that can lead to sensorineural hearing loss.
What is cisplatin/aminoglycosides?
Otoacoustic emissions are sounds generated by this part of the inner ear as it responds to sounds.
What are the outer hair cells?