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Related to audiometry: speech audiometry, Tympanometry, Pure tone audiometry

au·di·om·e·ter

(ô′dē-ŏm′ĭ-tər)

An instrument for measuring hearing activity for pure tones of normally audible frequencies. Also called sonometer.

au′di·o·met′ric (-ō-mĕt′rĭk) adj.

au′di·om′e·try n.

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au•di•om•e•try

(ˌɔ diˈɒm ɪ tri)

n.

the testing of hearing by means of an audiometer.

[1885–90]

au`di•o•met′ric (-ˈmɛ trɪk) adj.

audiometry

a testing of hearing ability by frequencies and various levels of loudness. — audiometrist, audiometrician, n. — audiometric, audiometrical, adj.

audiometry

n audiometría

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For this subset of patients, we analyzed surgical complications and outcomes, which included a comparison of the results of pre- and postoperative audiometry.

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Findings on audiometry were consistent with a conductive hearing loss bilaterally, with an air-bone gap of 40 to 60 dB.

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Audiometry revealed a conductive hearing loss, as the air-conduction pure-tone average (PTA) was 41 dB and the bone-conduction PTA was 10 dB.

Applebaum incudostapedial prosthesis

* Perform audiometry in the operating room on every patient for whom it is possible.

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In 1959, Jerger and Wertz also warned of the dangers inherent in the indiscriminate use of masking in bone-conduction audiometry. (3) They described the case of a patient with surgically confirmed otosclerosis whose masked bone levels yielded a false sensorineural hearing loss secondary to overmasking of a conductively impaired ear.

How to eliminate air-bone gaps audiometrically: use too much masking

Audiometry revealed a mild to moderate conductive hearing loss.

Migration of T-tubes to the middle ear

They cover pure-time audiometry, speech audiometry, immittance testing, and audiogram workbook.

Noun	1.	audiometry - the measurement of hearing audiology otology - the branch of medicine concerned with the ear
	2.	audiometry - measuring sensitivity of hearing measurement, measuring, mensuration, measure - the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule; "the measurements were carefully done"; "his mental measurings proved remarkably accurate"