Chapter 2

Question 1

tunning fork test

Answer 1

compare the hearing of the patient to that of a presumably normal-hearing examiner

Question 2

Name the three main parts of the ear

Answer 2

inner ear, middle ear, and outer ear

Question 3

What is the connection between the inner ear and the brain?

Answer 3

auditory nerve

Question 4

cochlea

Answer 4

part of the inner ear that is responsible for hearing

Question 5

attenuation

Answer 5

a decrease in the strength of a sound

Question 6

conductive hearing loss

Answer 6

The loss of sound sensitivity produced by abnormalities of the outer ear and/or middle ear

Question 7

sensorineural hearing

Answer 7

loss of hearing sensitivity produced by damage or alteration of the sensory mechanism of the cochlea or the neaural structures that lie beyond. formerly called nerve loss.

Question 8

mixed hearing loss

Answer 8

a sensorineural hearing loss with superimposed conductive hearing loss. The air-conduction level shows the entire loss the bone-conduction level, the sensorineural portion; and the air-bone gap, the conductive portion.

Question 9

Tuning fork tests

Answer 9

scwabach test,
rinnie test
weber test
bing test

Question 10

Does the tuning fork produce sound at different frequencies or a particular frequency?

Answer 10

particular frequency