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HEARING AID DISPENSER, HEARING DISORDERS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Definition 1 of 32
What can cause a threshold shift, distortion or perception of frequencies, or a disturbance in
the perception of loudness?
Damage Within The Vessel
Tissue Damage
Vascular Dilation
Inflammation
Definition 2 of 32
What is a pouch of skin filled with epithelial debris?
An Acoustic Neuroma
Tinnitus
Cholesteaoma
Atresia
,Definition 3 of 32
Calcium deposits on the ear drum are called:
Typanosclerosis.
Mixed Hearing Loss
The Air-bone Gap Indicates:
Otosclerosis
Definition 4 of 32
The sudden overnight) loss of hearing. Usually the loss is severe and sensorineural in nature.
Sudden Deafness
Tissue Damage
Otosclerosis
Hearing Problems
Definition 5 of 32
A pathway affecting the bones in the middle-ear. Initially the process is spongy, after which it
fixates the footplate of the stapes in the oval window creating a conductive hearing loss.
Recruitment
Otosclerosis
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Presbycusis
, Definition 6 of 32
Surgery to repair the tympanic membrane (ear drum) is called:
Myringoplasty
Typanosclerosis.
Myringotomy
Tympanometry
Definition 7 of 32
Meniere's Sydrome consists of:
mixed hearing loss
tinnitus, vertigo, and hearing loss.
The Air-Bone Gap indicates:
There is a conductive loss:
Definition 8 of 32
Sound passes through the outer and middle-ear into the hearing nerve. A small branch of the
hearing nerve crosses to the facial nerve within the brain. The facial nerve activates the
stapeius muscle in response to loud sounds. The contracting stapedius muscle tightens the
ear-drum by moving the middle-ear ossicles.
Impedance
The Air-bone Gap Indicates:
Otosclerosis
Stapedial Reflex Arc
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