Pre-auricular tags
One or more small stocks of skin and tissue located directly in front of the earlobe
Pre-auricular pit
A small depression in the skin in front of the tragus of the outer ear
Microtia
Pronounce malformations of the year, absence of portions of the pinna all the way to total absence of the pinna and external ear canal
aural atresia
Absence of an outer ear with perhaps only small remnant of skin and tissue, associated with hearing loss
Craniofacial anomalies
Malformations involving the face and head
Congenital malformations
Affirmations that are present at birth
Otitis externa
Means inflammation of the outer ear/diseases of the external ear canal
Stenosis
Construction or narrowing of the external ear canal
Exostosis
Bony abnormality that are hard growths with broad bases projecting into that your ear canal, no hearing loss
Middle ear effusion, serous otitis media, otitis media with effusion
Fluid in the middle ear
Cholesteatoma
Benign but invasive and serious, surgery needed
Otosclerosis
Progressive bone disease that results in fixation
Hemotympanum
Blood in the middle ear
Federal legislation and occupational safety and health administration
The two groups that make rules for noise exposure levels
Engineering control, administrative control, personal protective equipment
What are the three main ways to prevent hearing loss
Time is cut in half
For the OSHA 5 dB noise exposure doubling rule for every 5 dB louder...
Sound level meters
Use the DBA weighting scale which mimics human hearing sensitivity in sound fields to identify hazardous noise area
Sound dosimeters
A person wears the device that measures and exposure overtime to identify hazardous noise areas
Malingerer
A word that means liar to escape work, we don't use this term
1/4
This amount of functional hearing loss are compensation related
Stegner test
For unilateral or asymmetric non-organic hearing loss
Positive Stegner
This result suggest non-organic hearing loss
Negative Stenger
This suggest that the hearing loss is real, organic
Tinnitus
Auditory perception that is generally internal without an external stimulus
Objective tinnitus
Caused by a vibration of the tissue or structures in the head/neck that are audible to the patient and often to the audiologist
hyperacusis
Abnormal intolerance to louder every day sounds
Misophonia
A sound that creeps you out
Phonophobia
Afraid of a certain sound
Hypervigilance
Enhance state of sensory sensitivity accompanied by an exaggerated intensity of behaviors whose purpose is to detect activity, related to PTSD
Vestibular system, vision, somatosensory, lower leg and neck muscles
The senses that are involved in balance
Epley maneuver
Series of head movements to relieve symptoms of benign paroxsymal positional vertigo
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
One of the most common causes of vertigo, involved with head movement, generally last less than a minute
Vestibule (utricle and saccule)
Where did the otoconia/otoliths set
Endolymphatic Hydrops (Meniere's Disease)
Affects both of vestibular in the hearing organs, an inner ear disorder causing vertigo
electonystagmography (ENG) or video-nystagmography
Testify movement, the clinical approach for assessing vestibular system, can determine central or peripheral dysfunction but not at the specific site
Eye-movement
Rotational testing is for what
computerized dynamic posturography
-vestibular test battery
-performed to Evaluate the balance which is the ability of a person to remain in a vertical position over the body's center of gravity. Somatosensory sense and visual sense
Vestibular evoked myogenic potential testing
Provides information on the function of structures and pathways not assessed with other vestibular procedures
frenzel goggles
Help with clear visual of eye movement using dicks Hallpike maneuver
Nystagmus
Movement of eyes either slow pace and One Direction and fast in the other
Beating
Repetitive eye-movement in one direction
spontaneous nystagmus
Usually a sign of in balance or asymmetry and peripheral vestibular system
orthostatic hypotension (postural hypotension)
A form of Low blood pressure that happens when standing up from a sitting or lying down position, can cause dizziness or lightheadedness, and may result in fainting
Labyrinthitis
Swelling and inflammation of the labyrinth, part of the inner ear that helps control your balance
vestibular neuritis
And inflammation of the vestibular nerve, which is in your inner ear, this nerve carries balance signals from the inner ear to the brain
Migrainous vertigo
The most common causes of recurrent spontaneous vertigo and the second most common vestibular disorder after BPPV
Vestibular rehabilitation
The usual treatment for vestibular disorder's