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Which tuning fork test requires the examiner to have normal hearing?

Britney Spears comes into your office. You observe that she has an atretic ear canal on the right side. Testing reveals a conductive hearing loss on the right while the other ear is normal. How would you describe the laterality of her hearing loss?

Theoretically, a patient with a fractured incudostapedial joint should show what?

Listening to the audiometer each day to make sure there are no obvious problems is known as what?

When the tympanometer changes pressure, moving towards 0 daPa, what happens to the tympanic membrane?

What is an example of a compensatory motivation for pseudohypoacusis?

OAEs that are recorded with two tonal stimuli are called:

Describe in detail a concept covered in class or in the readings since the midterm that was not on this exam. Up to 3 points.

Little Timmy has otitis media in his left ear, which causes a hearing loss in that ear. His air conduction thresholds indicate a mild to moderate loss while his bone conduction scores are in the normal range. The minimum air-bone gaps are 15 dB HL. What type of hearing does littte Timmy have?

Case 1 The patient is a 54 year old male with complaints of fullness in his left ear and difficulty hearing in background noise. He denies significant otologic history and has no major medical history. Using the following test results, indicate where masking is necessary and the Mmax for each area. Remember to look at pure tones and speech. Assume no thresholds or responses changed with masking. final case 1.jpg final oaes case1.jpg