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Q924684 | Brodmann area | region of the brain |
Q5235918 | David Kemp | British physicist and researcher |
Q130249022 | Electrophysiology of Hearing and Otoacoustic Emissions: Principles and Clinical Applications | book about electrophysiology of hearing |
Q1519971 | Eustachian catarrh | inflammation of the auditory tube, typically associated with upper respiratory tract infections such as colds, and may be worsened by enlarged tonsils |
Q320561 | Eustachian tube | tube found in the middle ear which equalises pressure and drains mucus, connecting the middle ear to the throat |
Q65080570 | Eustachian tube dysfunction | dysfunction that prevents drainage and equalization of pressure between the middle ear and nasopharynx |
Q117085837 | Global Coalition of Parents of Children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing | international collaboration of parent-led support groups for families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing and provides support, information, and systemic advocacy |
Q129956982 | Hearing aid service delivery approaches for low- and middle-income settings | WHO implementation guidelines for community-level programs for the delivery of hearing aid services |
Q131378262 | International Classification of Vestibular Disorders | evidence-based classification system for vestibular disorders standardizes the definitions of syndromes, diseases, diagnostic procedures, and treatments in neurotology |
Q18521094 | International Noise Awareness Day | global campaign which aims to raise awareness of the effects of noise on the welfare and health of people. Celebrated the last Wednesday of April, annually |
Q124389651 | International Ototoxicity Management Group | global consortium addressing healthcare gaps in ototoxicity management worldwide |
Q60793100 | International Society of Audiology | international scientific organization of audiology |
Q107405554 | Ling sounds | behavioral assessment procedure that evaluates the auditory detection ability in children and infants |
Q130023683 | Make Listening Safe Workstream | World Hearing Forum initiative to change listening practices and behaviours |
Q6765177 | Marion Downs | American pediatric audiologist, researcher, and professor (1914-2014) |
Q129989401 | Masking in audiological assessment: a practical guide | audiology book on clinical masking |
Q460167 | Meniere's disease | disorder of the inner ear, characterized by potentially severe and incapacitating episodes of vertigo, tinnitus, hearing loss, and a feeling of fullness in the ear |
Q106547275 | National Policy for Hearing Health Care | Brazilian public policy that ensures access to hearing health care at different levels of care within the Unified Health System |
Q1543446 | Noonan syndrome | congenital, genetically widespread disease considered to be a type of dwarfism affecting boys and girls equally |
Q3136081 | P300 | event-related potential |
Q25447809 | Paralisia facial | Automatic description is not available |
Q131010730 | Rede de Atenção Psicossocial | Automatic description is not available |
Q131010731 | Redes de Atenção à Saúde | Automatic description is not available |
Q1759298 | Rinne test | screening test for hearing named after Heinrich Adolf Rinne |
Q40890130 | Stenger test | Automatic description is not available |
Q106548003 | Telefonoaudiologia | speech-language pathology |
Q130358135 | Tubo de ventilação | Automatic description is not available |
Q1470699 | Weber test | sensory neural hearing loss examination |
Q5815639 | World Hearing Day | annual campaign by the World Health Organization Office for the Prevention of Deafness |
Q129730254 | World Report on Hearing | WHO guidance for Member States to integrate ear and hearing care into their national health plans |
Q1504201 | absolute threshold of hearing | minimum sound level that an average individual can hear |
Q110933862 | acoustic environment | environment |
Q2230578 | acoustic trauma | injury to the eardrum as a result of a very loud noise |
Q3882459 | acoustic wave | longitudinal wave that propagates by means of adiabatic compression and decompression;travels with the speed of sound which depends on the medium they're passing through |
Q864028 | acute otitis media | otitis media |
Q131351367 | aided cortical auditory evoked potentials | evoked responses in the auditory cortex to sound stimuli, confirming the physiological detection of these stimuli at the cortical level |
Q130540843 | air-bone gap | difference in decibels between air conduction and bone conduction hearing thresholds, indicating a conductive hearing loss component |
Q4741549 | amblyaudia | suppression of activity in the non-dominant auditory pathway by activity in the dominant pathway which may be genetically determined and which could also be exacerbated by conditions throughout early development |
Q7107434 | ampulla of semicircular canal | Anatomical structure and class of anatomical entity, part of semicircular canal |
Q11905393 | ampulla of semicircular duct | Anatomical structure, part of semicircular duct and ampulla of semicircular canal |
Q4751053 | analog ear | model of the ear or of the cochlea (in the inner ear) based on an electrical, electronic or mechanical analog |
Q29783705 | anterior ampullary nerve | branch of vestibular nerve |
Q29729440 | anterior bony ampulla | anatomical structure |
Q66542958 | anterior limb of stapes | Zone of stapes, part of stapes |
Q29729444 | anterior membranous ampulla | anatomical structure |
Q66542962 | anterior process of malleus | Process of organ |
Q29717447 | anterior semicircular canal | semicircular canal, chiral organism subdivision type, and class of anatomical entity, part of inner ear and bony labyrinth |
Q29717452 | anterior semicircular duct | anatomical structure |
Q104549358 | articular facet for malleus | Zone of bone organ and articular surface, part of body of incus |
Q124214163 | articular facet for stapes | Articular surface, part of lenticular process of incus |
Q4800962 | articulation index | method of measuring hearing loss |
Q2357982 | attenuation | gradual loss of flux intensity through a medium |
Q781050 | audiogram | type of graph showing audiometer results |
Q23905461 | audiological center | organization |
Q1644347 | audiologist | health professional in hearing and other auditory problems such as tinnitus and balance |
Q569965 | audiology | branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders |
Q25339757 | audiology and hearing health professionals in developed and developing countries | audiology and hearing health professionals in developed and developing countries, covering roles, training, and access disparities |
Q138569 | audiometer | electronic device used to conduct an audiometry test to determine an individual’s hearing thresholds |
Q4819917 | audiometrist | health-care professional technician who has received special training in the use of Pure tone audiometry equipment |
Q758881 | audiometry | hearing test that assesses a person's hearing ability |
Q2870769 | audioprothesist | professional who sells, fits, adjusts and replaces hearing aids based on a written certificate from an ear |
Q124134874 | auditory | term for use with the Schema.org Accessibility Properties for Discoverability Vocabulary accessMode property that indicates that a resource contains information encoded in auditory form |
Q23808025 | auditory arrhythmia | inability to replicate musical or rhythmic patterns |
Q608256 | auditory brainstem response | process |
Q18676 | auditory cortex | region of the brain |
Q131339872 | auditory ecology | auditory environments in which humans live and function, the tasks to be undertaken by humans in these complex acoustic environments, and the importance of these tasks in daily life and daily routines |
Q199428 | auditory event | subjective perception, when listening to a certain sound situation |
Q4820025 | auditory fatigue | temporary loss of hearing after exposure to sound |
Q60741138 | auditory hazard assessment algorithm for humans | mathematical model of the human auditory system that calculates the risk to human hearing caused by exposure to impulse sounds, such as gunfire and airbag deployment |
Q424102 | auditory illusion | false perceptions of a real sound or outside stimulus |
Q4820030 | auditory integration training | developing treatment for auditory disorders |
Q1363413 | auditory masking | effect that occurs when the perception of one sound is affected by the presence of another sound |
Q4820036 | auditory neuropathy | hearing disorder characterized by impaired transmission of signals through the auditory nerve, resulting in mild to severe hearing loss and poor speech perception |
Q4820034 | auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder | specific form of hearing loss defined by the presence of normal or near-normal otoacoustic emissions but the absence of normal middle ear reflexes and abnormal auditory brainstem response |
Q816052 | auditory ossicle | three short and irregular bones that form a chain located in the tympanic cavity of the middle ear |
Q14914257 | auditory receptor cell development | process whose specific outcome is the progression of an auditory receptor cell over time, from its formation to the mature structure |
Q15325710 | auditory receptor cell morphogenesis | any process that alters the size or shape of an auditory receptor cell |
Q14914026 | auditory receptor cell stereocilium organization | process that is carried out at the cellular level which results in the assembly, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of a stereocilium |
Q2135818 | auditory recruitment | medical condition of the inner ear that leads to reduced tolerance of loudness |
Q821413 | auditory system | sensory system used for hearing |
Q4820022 | auditory-verbal therapy | method for teaching deaf children to listen and speak using their hearing technology |
Q112228153 | auditosensory cortex | part of the auditory system that is associated with the sense of hearing in humans |
Q186763 | aural rehabilitation | procedures for correcting hearing disorders |
Q30645745 | autoinflation | minimally invasive treatment for serous otitis media using a nasal balloon to apply pressure to sinus cavities |
Q684088 | autophony | medical condition |
Q4839818 | backward masking | Wikimedia disambiguation page |
Q1530280 | balance | ability to maintain the line of gravity of a body within the base of support with minimal postural sway |
Q66542960 | base of stapes | Zone of bone organ, part of stapes |
Q66542954 | body of incus | Body of organ, part of incus |
Q2914915 | bone anchored hearing aid | type of hearing aid based on bone conduction |
Q490249 | bone conduction | conduction of sound to the inner ear through bones other than the ossicles of the middle ear |
Q262489 | bony labyrinth | bony structure of the inner ear |
Q130273461 | brainstem auditory evoked potencial curve I | electrophysiological potential originating in the distal portion of the cochlear nerve |
Q115926971 | brainstem auditory evoked potential | electrophysiological assessment of auditory system synchrony |
Q66543482 | branch of vestibular nerve | Branch of vestibulocochlear nerve |
Q66543464 | branch of vestibulocochlear nerve | Branch of cranial nerve |
Q98139662 | causes of hearing loss | causes conditions of hearing loss, including aging, genetics, perinatal problems, loud sounds, and diseases. |
Q190425 | central auditory processing | brain function responsible for detecting, analyzing, and interpreting sound stimuli, involving structures of the peripheral and central auditory system |
Q130378384 | central auditory processing disorder | neurodevelopmental disorder that affects how the brain processes sounds |
Q108132915 | centro especializado em reabilitação | Legal act, clinic, and public policy in Brazil, part of Sistema Único de Saúde |
Q558230 | cholesteatoma | keratosis characterized by keratinizing squamous epithelium located in middle ear and/or mastoid, subepithelial connective tissue and by the progressive accumulation of keratin debris with or without surrounding inflammatory reaction |
Q1088044 | chronic otitis media | hronic form of otitis media |
Q1088055 | chronic purulent otitis media | suppurative otitis media which is persistent and long-lasting |
Q317857 | cochlea | organ of the inner ear |
Q584922 | cochlear aqueduct | Cranial conduit, anatomical space type, and class of anatomical entity, part of inner ear, bony labyrinth, and jugular fossa |
Q843875 | cochlear duct | anatomic element |
Q724965 | cochlear implant | prosthesis |
Q130301413 | cochlear microphonic | electrophysiological response generated by the outer hair cells of the cochlea in response to sound |
Q2519137 | cochlear nerve | nerve carrying auditory information from the inner ear to the brain |
Q387776 | cochlear nuclei | two cranial nerve nuclei of the human brainstem |
Q673205 | cocktail party effect | ability to pay attention to one conversation among many |
Q5141209 | cognitive hearing science | interdisciplinary science field concerned with the physiological and cognitive basis of hearing and its interplay with signal processing in hearing aids |
Q110852808 | computational audiology | branch of audiology that employs techniques from mathematics and computer science to improve clinical treatments and scientific understanding of the auditory system |
Q115841338 | conditioned play audiometry | pediatric hearing test where conditioned responses to auditory stimuli are used to assess a child's hearing ability, often through games or activities |
Q1581308 | conductive hearing loss | medical condition |
Q5173263 | cortical deafness | agnosia that is a loss of the ability to perceive any auditory information but whose hearing is intact |
Q2145485 | day–evening–night noise level | European standard to express noise level over an entire day |
Q1539971 | deaf | person who is partially or totally unable to hear |
Q124175573 | deaf and hard of hearing people | research area and label consisting of people who are deaf and people who are hard of hearing (e.g. through hearing loss) |
Q25393960 | deaf community | community influenced by deafness that uses sign languages (or written languages) as the main means of communication |
Q1118643 | deaf-mute | deaf person using a sign language or both deaf and could not speak |
Q12133 | deafness | partial or total inability to hear |
Q98139673 | diagnosis of hearing loss | identification of a hearing loss is usually conducted by a general practitioner medical doctor, otolaryngologist, certified and licensed audiologist, school or industrial audiometrist, or other audiometric technician |
Q3090244 | dichotic listening test | auditory test to assess selective attention |
Q5272531 | dichotic pitch | pitch heard due to binaural processing, when the brain combines two noises presented simultaneously to the ears |
Q5279800 | diplacusis | hearing disorder whereby a single auditory stimulus is perceived as different pitches between ears |
Q2178546 | direct acoustic cochlear implant | acoustic implant which converts sound in mechanical vibrations that stimulate directly the perilymph inside the cochlea |
Q3357695 | discharging ear | human disease |
Q130273498 | distortion product evoked otoacoustic emissions | assessment of the integrity of outer hair cells as a result of cochlear nonlinearity by two-tone stimulation of specific frequency stimuli |
Q116789644 | doenças infectocontagiosas e audição | Hearing health |
Q130301287 | double-peaked tympanometric curve | indicates a rare pathology such as ossicular disarticulation |
Q5031084 | ductus reuniens | part of the human inner ear |
Q7362 | ear | organ that detects sound; organ of hearing and balance |
Q14863416 | ear development | The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the ear over time, from its formation to the mature structure. The ear is the sense organ in vertebrates that is specialized for the detection of sound, and the maintenance of balance. Includes |
Q5325633 | ear disease | human disease |
Q117768481 | ear foreign body | foreign body in the external auditory canal |
Q118906812 | ear fullness | auditory sensation associated with a feeling of stuffiness in the ear, pressure in the ear, or a feeling of "stuffed ear" |
Q15311454 | ear morphogenesis | The process in which the anatomical structures of the ear are generated and organized. The ear is the sense organ in vertebrates that is specialized for the detection of sound, and the maintenance of balance. Includes the outer ear and middle ear, wh |
Q18557904 | ear neoplasms | uncontrolled cellular proliferation of the auditory organs |
Q5325638 | ear protection | topics referred to by the same term |
Q173801 | eardrum | membrane separating the external ear from the middle ear |
Q5326918 | earmold | device worn inserted into the ear for sound conduction or hearing protection |
Q673782 | earplug | device meant to be inserted in the ear canal to protect the user's ears from loud noises or the intrusion of water, foreign bodies, dust or excessive wind |
Q76418 | earwax | waxy substance secreted by the ear |
Q5357983 | electrocochleography | technique of recording electrical potentials generated in the inner ear and auditory nerve in response to sound stimulation, using an electrode placed in the ear canal or tympanic membrane |
Q1327454 | electronystagmography | electrography of eye muscle movements |
Q1154774 | electrophysiology | study of the electrical properties of biological cells and tissues. |
Q3824661 | endolymphatic duct | canal |
Q107473133 | endolymphatic hydrops | disorder of the inner ear which consists of an excessive build-up of the endolymph fluid, which fills the hearing and balance structures of the inner ear |
Q5376355 | endolymphatic sac | blind pouch |
Q2478325 | environmental noise | noise pollution |
Q18558207 | eustachian tube disease | human disease |
Q5418653 | evolution of mammalian auditory ossicles | evolutionary event in which bones in the jaw of reptiles were co-opted to form part of the hearing apparatus in mammals |
Q25303857 | evolution of the cochlea | structure and functional evolution of the cochlea across species |
Q258328 | external ear canal | tube running from the outer ear to the middle ear |
Q7562539 | facial paralysis | common problem that involves the paralysis of any structures innervated by the facial nerve |
Q2359404 | falls in older adults | involuntary loss of postural stability, resulting in impacts against the ground or other objects, related to aging, audiological changes, and balance disorders |
Q5502870 | frequency following response | evoked potential generated by periodic or nearly-periodic auditory stimuli |
Q124176257 | frequency modulation system | systems that modulate frequencies, often as an assistive technology |
Q1566641 | hair cell | auditory nerve cells |
Q14902768 | hair cell differentiation | process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires specialized features of an auditory hair cell |
Q66542951 | handle of malleus | Zone of bone organ, part of malleus |
Q69946825 | hard of hearing person | persons with a degree of loss of hearing |
Q66542952 | head of malleus | Zone of bone organ |
Q66542957 | head of stapes | Zone of bone organ, part of stapes |
Q5689465 | head shadow | region of reduced amplitude of a sound |
Q186819 | headphone | small loudspeakers worn on the head for listening to music or for communications purposes |
Q4117845 | health effects from noise | health consequences of exposure to elevated sound levels |
Q17619740 | health problems of musicians | occupational disease |
Q160289 | hearing | sensory perception of sound by living organisms |
Q323808 | hearing aid | small sound amplifiers worn in the ear (ITE) to compensate for hearing loss |
Q5691656 | hearing conservation program | program to conserve hearing |
Q45090926 | hearing device | in a wider sense, including cochlear implants, BAHA aids |
Q1644260 | hearing disorder | human disease condition that impairs the ability to detect, process, or interpret sounds |
Q130216486 | hearing health | interventions required to prevent, identify, and treat hearing loss and related ear diseases |
Q119399115 | hearing in autism spectrum disorder | hearing alterations associated with autism spectrum disorder |
Q5691657 | hearing level | Automatic description is not available |
Q16035842 | hearing loss | form of hearing disorder |
Q131302459 | hearing loss in children | partial or total reduction in hearing ability in children, impacting communicative and social development |
Q106547597 | hearing loss in music professionals | hearing risks related to exposure to high sound pressure levels |
Q10348495 | hearing perception | perception involves processing of signals that go through the nervous system, which result from physical stimulation of the ear |
Q13405515 | hearing protection | protection device for auditory organs |
Q65091626 | hearing protection fit-testing | test to objectively determining the attenuation offered by hearing protection devices (HPDs) to an individual |
Q351087 | hearing range | range of frequencies that can be heard by humans or other animals |
Q103884376 | hearing science | interdisciplinary study of the biological, physical, and cognitive processes involved in human hearing and sound perception |
Q5691664 | hearing test | evaluation of the sensitivity of a person's sense of hearing |
Q117377861 | hearing threshold | minimum sound level of a pure tone that an average human ear with normal hearing can hear with no other sound present |
Q3508741 | hidden hearing loss | typically undetected hearing loss in conventional tests, affecting the ability to hear sounds in noisy environments or with multiple speakers |
Q130273495 | high frequency audiometry | hearing test used for detection of hearing impairments caused by ototoxicity, noise exposure, and acoustic traumas or in the assessment of patients with tinnitus |
Q131152189 | human auditory ecology | research program exploring the relationship between the acoustic environments people live in and their auditory needs within those environments |
Q1421356 | hyperacusis | very rare and extremely debilitating hearing disorder characterized by unusual intolerance to ordinary environmental sounds |
Q6124455 | immittance | combined measure of impedance and admittance |
Q3307114 | impedance audiometry | tests of middle ear function based on the difficulty (impedance) or ease (admittance) of sound flow through the middle ear |
Q497385 | incus | bone in the middle ear |
Q107314101 | individual sound amplification device | device designed to improve hearing by making a sound audible to a person with hearing loss |
Q29642076 | inner auditory hair cell | cell in the organ of Corti |
Q212344 | inner ear | innermost part of the vertebrate ear |
Q14859973 | inner ear development | The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the inner ear over time, from its formation to the mature structure. |
Q18555242 | inner ear disease | human disease |
Q14877676 | inner ear morphogenesis | The process in which the anatomical structures of the inner ear are generated and organized. The inner ear is the structure in vertebrates that contains the organs of balance and hearing. It consists of soft hollow sensory structures (the membranous |
Q21095395 | inner ear receptor cell development | process whose specific outcome is the progression of an inner ear receptor cell over time, from its formation to the mature structure; cell development does not include the steps involved in committing a cell to a specific fate |
Q14903365 | inner ear receptor cell differentiation | process in which relatively unspecialized cells, acquire specialized structural and/or functional features of inner ear receptor cells |
Q21106218 | inner ear receptor cell stereocilium organization | process that is carried out at the cellular level which results in the assembly, arrangement of constituent parts, or disassembly of a stereocilium (actin-based protrusion from the apical surface of inner ear receptor cells) |
Q130534208 | interaural attenuation | minimum amount of frequency-variable acoustic energy required to move the skull out of inertia through vibration produced by sound stimulation |
Q2421877 | labyrinth | structure in the inner ear |
Q2038371 | labyrinthitis | inflammation of the labyrinth, fluid-filled channels in the inner ear |
Q6471979 | lagena | part of the ear's vestibule |
Q29783703 | lateral ampullary nerve | branch of vestibular nerve |
Q29728284 | lateral bony ampulla | semicircular canal and chiral organism subdivision type, part of lateral semicircular canal |
Q29728287 | lateral membranous ampulla | anatomical structure |
Q66542961 | lateral process of malleus | Process of organ |
Q29715897 | lateral semicircular canal | semicircular canal, chiral organism subdivision type, and class of anatomical entity, part of inner ear and bony labyrinth |
Q29715904 | lateral semicircular duct | anatomical structure |
Q66542966 | lenticular process of incus | Process of organ, part of long limb of incus |
Q1069953 | lip reading | technique of understanding speech when sound is not available |
Q6646450 | listening | hearing what others are saying, and trying to understand what it means |
Q66542955 | long limb of incus | Process of organ and zone of bone organ, part of incus |
Q21087161 | macula | thickened area in the vestibule of ear |
Q3823855 | macula of saccule | hair cells surrounded by support cells in the saccule |
Q6725774 | macula of utricle | Macula, subdivision of utricle of membranous labyrinth, and class of anatomical entity, part of utricle |
Q319636 | malleus | bone of the middle ear (handle of malleus 5 mm, head of malleus: 2 mm) |
Q845740 | mastoid process | Zone of petrous part of temporal bone, particular anatomical entity, zone of bone organ, process, and class of anatomical entity, part of petrous part of the temporal bone and mastoid part of the temporal bone |
Q6593307 | membranous labyrinth | system of tubes and chambers in the inner ear |
Q1759560 | microtia | congenital deformity where the pinna (external ear) is underdeveloped |
Q501553 | middle ear | part of the ear that lies between the eardrum and the oval window |
Q131291106 | minimal hearing loss | mild auditory changes that can impact language, learning, and quality of life, often underdiagnosed |
Q2720968 | mismatch negativity | component in a sequence of stimuli |
Q2054837 | misophonia | a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds or stimuli associated with such sounds; these stimuli are experienced as unpleasant/distressing and tend to evoke strong negative emotional, physiological, and behavioural responses |
Q64821719 | mixed conductive-sensorineural hearing loss | hearing loss caused by damage to or impairment of both the conductive elements and the sensorineural elements of the ear |
Q17156859 | models of deafness | frameworks explaining perspectives on deafness: cultural, social, and medical models |
Q6940333 | muscle of auditory ossicle | Muscle of head, muscle of head, and class of anatomical entity, part of middle ear |
Q6942543 | musical ear syndrome | auditory hallucination associated with hearing loss |
Q1956782 | myringitis | inflammation of the tympanic membrane, part of the middle ear, usually of infectious origin, often caused by influenza viruses |
Q130304021 | narrowband stimuli | type of signal or noise concentrated in a specific and narrow frequency band |
Q66542953 | neck of malleus | Neck of organ |
Q119039611 | neuromonics | non-invasive sound therapy |
Q14864368 | neuron projection development | process whose specific outcome is the progression of a neuron projection over time, from its formation to the mature structure; any process extending from a neural cell, such as axons or dendrites (collectively called neuri |
Q7002460 | neuronal encoding of sound | representation of auditory sensation and perception in the nervous system |
Q849491 | neuroplasticity | ability of the brain to continuously change over the course of one's lifetime |
Q7888578 | neurosyphilis | infection of the central nervous system in a patient with syphilis |
Q179448 | noise | variety of sound, usually meaning any unwanted sound |
Q1879301 | noise control | strategies to reduce noise pollution or its impact |
Q92251 | noise pollution | excessive, displeasing human, animal, or machine-created environmental noise |
Q1475712 | noise-induced hearing loss | condition in which a person loses the ability to hear due to exposure to high intensity sound |
Q220989 | nystagmus | condition of involuntary eye movement |
Q17072363 | occupational exposure limit | upper limit on the acceptable concentration of a hazardous substance |
Q20887524 | occupational hearing loss | hearing loss caused by occupational hazards |
Q7088222 | olivocochlear system | component of the auditory system |
Q1411862 | oralism | controversial method of teaching deaf people that emphasizes use of oral language and lip reading |
Q1128309 | organ of Corti | type of mechanoreceptor |
Q1596398 | otalgia | pain in the ear |
Q480700 | otitis | general term for inflammation or infection of the ear |
Q680873 | otitis externa | inflammation of the outer ear and ear canal. |
Q223254 | otitis media | otitis which involves inflammation of the middle ear |
Q912019 | otoacoustic emission | mechanical energy produced by the rapid contraction of the outer hair cells of the cochlea |
Q591800 | otolith | small calcium carbonate inner-ear vertebrates structure in the inner ear that aids in sensing gravity and motion |
Q29654295 | otolith organ | structure in the inner ear that detects linear acceleration and head position relative to gravity |
Q7108965 | otolithic membrane | gel-like structure in the inner ear that houses otoconia and helps detect linear acceleration and head position relative to gravity |
Q1640326 | otology | branch of medicine dealing with the ear |
Q560456 | otomycosis | human disease |
Q3357696 | otorrhagia | bleeding from ear |
Q756610 | otosclerosis | otitis interna characterized by an abnormal bone growth in the middle ear |
Q1351381 | ototoxicity | property of being toxic to the ear |
Q609753 | outer ear | the outer portion of the ear which includes the auricle and the ear canal and leads to the eardrum |
Q2301793 | oval window | membrane-covered opening that leads from the middle ear to the vestibule of the inner ear |
Q1361850 | patulous eustachian tube | eustachian tube disorder |
Q103560322 | pedaudiologist | profession, in the field of pediatric audiology |
Q2120283 | pediatric audiology | science of hearing disorders in children |
Q115843905 | perda auditiva em idosos | Automatic description is not available |
Q2562623 | perforated eardrum | an injury leading to a hole in the eardrum |
Q117768578 | perichondritis of the ear | infection that affects the outer part of the ear |
Q5679391 | peripheral auditory system | structures responsible for capturing sounds and converting them into electrical signals sent to the brain |
Q106689705 | peripheral hearing loss | reduction in hearing ability caused by alterations in the outer, middle, or inner ear, before the auditory nerve |
Q1333024 | personal protective equipment | protective clothing or equipment designed to help protect an individual from injury, Noise, infection, or other hazards |
Q1404198 | petrous part of the temporal bone | anatomical feature |
Q1688222 | phonagnosia | agnosia that is a loss of the ability to recognize familiar voices |
Q17145476 | place theory | theory about mechanism of hearing |
Q63537766 | poly(ethyl methacrylate) | hydrophobic synthetic acrylate polymer |
Q29783706 | posterior ampullary nerve | branch of vestibular nerve |
Q29730614 | posterior bony ampulla | anatomical structure |
Q60596754 | posterior incudal ligament | suspensory ligament and class of anatomical entity |
Q66542959 | posterior limb of stapes | Zone of stapes, part of stapes |
Q29730618 | posterior membranous ampulla | anatomical structure |
Q29718855 | posterior semicircular canal | semicircular canal, chiral organism subdivision type, and class of anatomical entity, part of inner ear and bony labyrinth |
Q29718860 | posterior semicircular duct | anatomical structure |
Q1756133 | presbycusis | cumulative effect of aging on hearing |
Q131337426 | pressurized otoacoustic emissions | clinical test detecting cochlear outer hair cell energy by equalizing ear canal and middle ear pressure to improve accuracy and reduce false positives for sensorineural hearing loss |
Q108045226 | psychoacoustic assessment of tinnitus | evaluation to characterize the parameters of tinnitus perception |
Q557399 | psychoacoustics | scientific study of sound perception and audiology |
Q7261165 | pure tone audiometry | hearing test |
Q25303683 | real ear measurement | measurement of sound pressure level in a patient's ear canal developed when a hearing aid is worn |
Q120884824 | recrutamento de Metz | Automatic description is not available |
Q66557462 | region of membranous labyrinth of internal ear | Region of organ component |
Q131360688 | reverse correlation function | impulse response associated with auditory processing |
Q369503 | saccade | short, quick, simultaneous movement of both eyes between two or more phases of fixation in the same direction; random eye movement |
Q7396635 | saccular nerve | Branch of vestibular nerve and nerve, part of vestibular nerve |
Q3494094 | saccule | membranous labyrinth in the vestibule of ear |
Q106617201 | safe listening | practices to avoid hearing damage from intentionally heard sounds |
Q2070426 | selective auditory attention | process of the auditory system where an individual selects or focuses on certain stimuli for auditory information processing while other stimuli are disregarded |
Q1064403 | semicircular canal | tube located inside the ear |
Q11829330 | semicircular duct | part of membranous labyrinth which is in the semicircular canal |
Q928697 | sensorineural hearing loss | type of Hearing Loss |
Q11101 | sensory nervous system | part of the nervous system responsible for processing sensory information |
Q66542956 | short limb of incus | Process of organ and zone of bone organ, part of incus |
Q34228 | sign language | language which uses manual communication and body language to convey meaning |
Q11461 | sound | vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave |
Q16642939 | sound-image | concept proposed by Francois Bayle to designate the auditory representation of a sound for its form and the perception that one can have of it (therefore involving the point of hearing), whether it is a tangible or metaphorical representation |
Q73219200 | speech audiometry | measurement of the ability to hear speech under various conditions of intensity and noise interference using sound-field as well as earphones and bone oscillators |
Q7575390 | speech banana | audiogram feature |
Q643696 | speech perception | process of hearing and understanding language |
Q130273449 | speech perception | ability to perceive linguistic structure in the acoustic speech signal |
Q130273464 | speech reception threshold | minimum hearing level at which an individual can correctly repeat 50% of the speech material |
Q33226 | speech-language pathology | the study and treatment of speech and language problems |
Q3095145 | spiral ganglion | anatomical structure |
Q60389461 | spontaneous otoacoustic emissions | self-generated faint acoustic signals from the inner ear |
Q507538 | stapedius muscle | muscle in the human ear |
Q1422835 | stapedius reflex | involuntary contraction of the stapedius muscle in response to high-intensity sounds |
Q54810969 | stapedius reflex finding | Impedance audiometry and medical finding |
Q499897 | stapes | bone of the middle ear |
Q1618109 | stria vascularis | capillary or blood vessel in the wall of cochlear duct |
Q66572180 | subdivision of saccule of membranous labyrinth | Region of membranous labyrinth of internal ear |
Q66557479 | subdivision of semicircular duct | Region of membranous labyrinth of internal ear |
Q66563602 | subdivision of utricle of membranous labyrinth | Region of membranous labyrinth of internal ear |
Q66557588 | subdivision of vestibular labyrinth | Region of membranous labyrinth of internal ear |
Q685200 | superior canal dehiscence | thinning or erosion of the bony layer covering the superior semicircular canal, causing abnormal exposure of the vestibular membranous labyrinth to the middle cranial fossa |
Q1498613 | surfer's ear | common name for an abnormal bone growth within the external ear canal |
Q7695702 | tele-audiology | use of telemedicine to provide audiological services |
Q16313 | temporal bone | bones situated at the sides and base of the skull, and lateral to the temporal lobes of the cerebrum |
Q254643 | tensor tympani muscle | muscle in the inner ear |
Q1098125 | threshold of pain | point at which pain begins to be felt |
Q25303882 | tinnitracks | digital therapy app designed for the treatment of tinnitus through audio therapy |
Q192309 | tinnitus | perception of sound within the human ear ("ringing of the ears") when no external sound is present |
Q7808392 | tinnitus masker | white noise sound generating device |
Q2435864 | tinnitus retraining therapy | form of habituation therapy |
Q1036063 | tone decay test | auditory nerve function assessment by measuring the ability to sustain hearing a continuous tone, aiding in detecting retrocochlear disorders |
Q130273494 | toneburst stimuli | short-duration tone used in auditory or acoustic tests |
Q82654 | tonotopy | Arrangement of sound frequency processing in the brain |
Q1570144 | tympanic cavity | small cavity surrounding the bones of the middle ear |
Q3393910 | tympanic duct | one of the perilymph-filled cavities in the human inner ear |
Q1838637 | tympanometer | device used to assess middle ear function by measuring the movement of the tympanic membrane in response to changes in air pressure |
Q130301262 | tympanometric curve type Ad | indicates hypermobility of the tympanic membrane |
Q130301273 | tympanometric curve type As | indicates dysfunction in the ossicular chain or increased stiffness |
Q130301245 | tympanometric curve type B | indicates the presence of fluid or blockage in the middle ear |
Q1671504 | tympanometry | examination used to test the condition of the middle ear |
Q2199494 | tympanosclerosis | condition caused by hyalinization and subsequent calcification of subepithelial connective tissue of TM and middle ear |
Q452921 | tympanostomy tube | medical device inserted into the eardrum |
Q130273373 | type A tympanometric curve | indication of normality of the tympanossicular system |
Q130273430 | type C tympanometric curve | indicates negative pressure in the middle ear |
Q3813334 | unilateral hearing loss | hearing impairment |
Q10380941 | universal neonatal hearing screening | policy of routinely testing the hearing of babies soon after birth |
Q974231 | utricle | membranous labyrinth in the vestibule of ear |
Q29783803 | utricular nerve | branch of vestibular nerve |
Q20707977 | utriculosaccular duct | part of the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear which connects the two parts of the vestibule, the utricle and the saccule |
Q3505189 | verbal auditory agnosia | human disease |
Q10686316 | vertigo | type of dizziness |
Q7923449 | vestibular aqueduct | orifice |
Q16678483 | vestibular disease | Human disease |
Q70577989 | vestibular evoked myogenic potentials | electrical responses from muscles following stimulation of the ear vestibule |
Q29654328 | vestibular hair cell | sensory receptor cells in the inner ear responsible for detecting head motion and maintaining balance |
Q2146063 | vestibular nerve | branch of the vestibulocochlear nerve |
Q596832 | vestibular system | sensory system |
Q3279041 | vestibule of the ear | central part of the bony labyrinth that connects the cochlea and semicircular canals, playing a key role in balance and spatial orientation |
Q1883898 | vestibulo-ocular reflex | reflex where rotation of the head causes eye movement to stabilize vision |
Q319317 | vestibulocochlear nerve | eighth cranial nerve |
Q131339768 | vestibulometry | diagnostic test that evaluates the function of the vestibular system, which helps maintain balance and spatial orientation |
Q130301332 | wave II of the auditory brainstem response | electrophysiological potential generated in the proximal portion of the cochlear nerve |
Q130301388 | wave III of the auditory brainstem response | electrophysiological potential originating in the cochlear nucleus in the brainstem |
Q130301396 | wave IV of the auditory brainstem response | electrophysiological potential generated in the superior olivary complex and lateral lemniscus |
Q130301400 | wave V of the auditory brainstem response | electrophysiological potential originating in the inferior colliculus of the midbrain |
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