Hearing and Equilibrium

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Hearing

special sense that allows detection of a range of sound frequencies (pitches) and intensities (volumes)

Static Equilibrium

The sense that allows you to determine your position relative to gravity.

Kinetic Equilibrium

The sense that provides information about the speed and direction of body

Conduction impairment

blocking of sound waves as they travel through the external and middle ear to the sensory areas of the inner ear (the conduction pathway).

Nerve impairment

implies insensitivity to sound caused by inherited or acquired nerve damage.

Romberg test

Subject's ability to use information sensed by the utricle and saccule alone, without any help from the sense of vision.

Barany test

Evaluates the function of the semicircular canals.