audiograms
Sound perception graphs
Audiograms are visual representations of hearing ability, charting the softest sounds a person can detect across different frequencies.
Audiologists use them to diagnose hearing loss and fit hearing aids: The audiogram showed significant loss in the higher frequencies.
The singular audiogram refers to an individual test result.
Perceiving sound waves
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- decibelsAcoustic intensity units
- audiometryEvaluation of hearing ability
calibration · hertz · earphones · baseline · screening · masking · octave · intensity
Study of ear, nose, throat
Diminished function or capacity
- deafUnable to hear
- sign-languageCommunication through gestures
- lip-readingInterpreting speech visually
- accommodationShelter or housing provided
Allows energy transfer
- noise-inducedCaused by loud sounds
- asymmetricNot identical on both sides
- slopingAngled from horizontal
- notchV-shaped incision
mild · moderate · severe · profound · configuration · interpretation
hearing
Perceiving sound waves
audiometry · calibration · hertz · earphones · baseline · screening · masking · octave · intensity · bilateral
otolaryngology
Study of ear, nose, throat
impairment
Diminished function or capacity
- deafUnable to hear
- sign-languageCommunication through gestures
- lip-readingInterpreting speech visually
conductive
Allows energy transfer
- noise-inducedCaused by loud sounds
- asymmetricNot identical on both sides
- slopingAngled from horizontal
notch · mild · moderate · severe · profound · configuration · interpretation
- hearing carehearing aids, hearing aid, cochlear implant, cochlear implants, audiologists
- Audiologyaudiometer, pure tone audiometry, audiometers, audiometry, hearing test