Exam 1 Part 3 Flashcards

1
Q

Includes the cochlea and 8th cranial nerve

A

Sensorineural

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2
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Cochlear hair cells are damaged, considered permanent damage

A

Sensorineural hearing loss

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3
Q

How do you treat sensorineural hearing loss?

A

Hearing aids and cochlear implants

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4
Q

Conductive and sensorineural hearing loss

A

Mixed hearing loss

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5
Q

What is considered sensory hearing loss?

A

If cochlear hair cells are damaged

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6
Q

What is considered neural hearing loss?

A

Damage to the cranial nerve

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7
Q

Damage beyond the cochlear

A

Retrocochlear

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8
Q

Stimulus being delivered to ear by air

A

Air conduction

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9
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What does air conduction test?

A

Outer, inner, and middle ear

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10
Q

Delivering stimulus to ear by bone

A

Bone conduction

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11
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What areas do we put bone conduction tests on?

A

Mastoid process, forehead, teeth

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12
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What does bone conduction test?

A

Directly tests the cochlea (sensorineural system)

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13
Q

Difference between air conduction and bone conduction that determines conduction loss

A

Air bone gap

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14
Q

Testing both sides of the ear

A

Binaural

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15
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Testing one ear

A

Unilateral/ monaural

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16
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Not measuring hearing, can only assume that if physiological functions are working, hearing is also functional

A

Neurophysiological

17
Q

Covering 1 ear to make sure hearing is from the other ear

A

Masking

18
Q

Softest sound a person can hear

A

Threshold

19
Q

What are 3 characteristics of conductive hearing loss?

A
  • AC outside of normal
  • BC within normal
  • air bone gap
20
Q

What are 3 characteristics of sensorineural hearing loss?

A
  • AC outside of normal
  • BC outside of normal
  • AC = BC
21
Q

What are 3 characteristics of mixed hearing loss?

A
  • AC outside of normal
  • BC outside of normal
  • Air bone gap
22
Q

What are the 3 classifications of hearing loss?

A

Degree, type, configuration

23
Q

How much the hearing loss is (mild, normal, profound, etc)

A

Degree

24
Q

What are 3 types of hearing loss?

A

Conductive, sensorineural, mixed

25
Q

Degree of hearing loss is determined by _____

A

Air conduction