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With conductive hearing loss where is the location of the sound decreasing and decreasing ability to hear?
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Middle or inner ear
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What is Aural atresia?
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The external ear canal is not opened. It is completely closed.
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What condition found on the skin of the external auditory canal can cause a conductive hearing loss?
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External otitis
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Middle ear effusion is another name for?
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Otitis media
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Otitis media primarily occurs in?
A. Adults B. Teens C Infants and children |
C. Infants and Children
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What is the difference between serous otitis media and acute otitis media?
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With serous otitis media the blockage remains and the air is thinned in order to decrease pressure. Acute otitis media becomes infected and becomes filled with fluid and pus. Fever and a rupturing TM may a be a result of acute otitis media.
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Why do individuals with sensorineural hearing loss speak loudly?
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Bone and air conduction is affected and this interferes with the individual hearing other sounds as well as their own voice.
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What birth defect results in an extremely narrow external auditory canal?
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Stenosis
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When is Otitis media "chronic"?
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When there is permanent damage to the middle ear.
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An abnormal grown in the middle ear that is causing a conductive hearing loss is called?
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Otosclerosis
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Otospongiosis is the cause of what becoming to soft and being unable to vibrate?
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Stapes
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Is a sensorineural hearing loss permanent?
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Yes, The hair cells can not be repaired
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What is a sensorineural hearing loss that occurs in older people and affects the high frequencies?
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Presbycusis
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Is conductive hearing loss ever profound?
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No, Bone conduction will allow sound to be heard to a certain degree.
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If the middle ear function is normal, what is causing the brain not to receive neural impulses of sound?
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The hair cells of the cochlea or the acoustic nerve is damaged.
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In what week of pregnancy can the cochlear be damaged?
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6th and 7th week
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Antibiotics that include "mycin" and noise are known risks for
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damaging the cochlear hair cells
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What is an acoustic neuroma?
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The tumor can affect hearing and cause a sensorineural loss.
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Meniere's disease is usually found in _________?
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Adults
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List three symptoms of Meniere's disease
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vertigo, fullness in the ear tinnitus
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What is a mixed hearing loss?
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The middle and inner ear are not functioning correctly.
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Microtia is when the _______________ is very small.
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Pinna
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prelingual deafness occurs before the development of? and postligual occurs after the development of?
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Language
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Hearing loss due to excessive noise will have a decrease in slope in low or high frequencies?
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High
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Can individuals with a conductive hearing loss hear themselves?
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Yes
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