audiogram
Sound sensitivity graph
An audiogram is a graph showing a person's hearing ability across different frequencies and volumes.
Audiologists create audiograms during hearing tests to diagnose hearing loss and determine its severity: The audiogram showed significant loss in the higher frequencies.
The chart plots which sounds a patient can and cannot detect.
Point of beginning
- decibelsAcoustic intensity units
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- hertzFrequency measurement unit
- bone conductionSound traveling through skull
audiometry · booth · headphones · calibration · baseline · screening · diagnostic · masking
Spiral hearing organ
- eardrumInner auditory membrane
- ossiclesMinute skeletal structures
- ear canalPassage to eardrum
- inner earBalance and hearing center
middle ear · outer ear · vestibule · stapes · malleus · incus · oval window · round window
Rate of recurrence
hertz · sound waves · acoustics · intensity · loudness · sensitivity · harmonic · infrasonic
Reduced ability to perceive sound
- deafnessLack of auditory function
- impairmentDiminished function or capacity
- conductiveAllows energy transfer
- mixedBlended from varied elements
tinnitus · noise-induced · bilateral · unilateral · mild · moderate · severe · profound
threshold
Point of beginning
bone conduction · audiometry · booth · headphones · calibration · baseline · screening · diagnostic · masking · speech recognition
cochlea
Spiral hearing organ
inner ear · middle ear · outer ear · vestibule · stapes · malleus · incus · oval window · round window
frequency
Rate of recurrence
decibel · hertz · sound waves · acoustics · intensity · loudness · sensitivity · harmonic · infrasonic · ultrasound
hearing loss
Reduced ability to perceive sound
- deafnessLack of auditory function
- impairmentDiminished function or capacity
- conductiveAllows energy transfer
mixed · tinnitus · noise-induced · bilateral · unilateral · mild · moderate · severe · profound · asymmetrical
- health testsblood test, blood pressure check, cholesterol test, glucose test, vision test
- medical testsblood test, blood tests, CT scan, X-ray, urine tests
- Deafnessdeaf education, deaf awareness, deaf rights, deaf culture, deaf pride
- diagnostic recordsCT scan, MRI scan, echocardiogram, mammogram, angiogram
- Ear Healthear canal, ear drum, ear infections, ear pain, eardrum
- ENTear, otology, otolaryngologist, ears, laryngology
audiogramsound recording
Captured audio stored permanently
audio recording · phonograph record · soundtrack · audio file · broadcast