Terminology
Anatomy of the Ear
Hearing Loss
Physiology of Hearing
What's that sound?
100
The number of times a vibrating object oscillates in one second.
What is frequency?
100
Outer ear that people often pierce.
What is the Pinna?
100
A type of hearing loss that stems from the inability of the brain to receive stimulus from the inner ear.
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
100
This is where hearing begins in your ear.
What is the external auditory meatus?
200
How high or low a tone sounds to a person.
What is pitch?
200
Long slender cells that make up the hair cells.
What are Stereocilia?
200
A patient comes to you and complains they can't hear their grandsons Tick-Tocks. Their ear looks like this:
What type of hearing loss do they have?
Conductive
Bonus Points if you said DO NOT USE A Q-TIP
200
Hair cells in different parts of the cochlea vibrate based on differences in this.
What is frequency?
200
What makes this sound?
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Bowling
300
When looking at a sound wave, the ______ will measure the loudness of the sound.
What is amplitude?
300
Region of the ear where the tympanic membrane is located
What is the Middle Ear
300
What is the common name for Otitis Externa?
Swimmers Ear
300
If you hear a sound on your right, this ear heard it sooner and louder.
What is the right ear?
300
What makes this sound?
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Rollercoaster
400
The distance between two peaks of wave.
What is wavelength?
400
Components of the vestibular fluid
What is salt water?
400
You tell a patient you want to conduct a whisper test.
You've told them what you're doing, and that you're standing behind them. You whispered the letter/number combo into their right ear, they repeated it back to you correctly.
You move on to the next test. What did you forget?
Test the other ear.
400
This bone vibrates next after the sound reaches the tympanic membrane.
What is the malleus?
500
A unit of measurement indicating how loud sounds are or sound intensity.
What is a decibel?
500
Three small bones of the middle ear.
What are the Malleus, Incus, Stapes?
500
Which specialty test will confirm conductive hearing loss: Weber or Rinne?
Weber.... Ya'll are seriously awesome.
500
These transmit signals to the auditory nerve.
What are hair cells?