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  2. Sound pressure - Wikipedia

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    Sound pressure or acoustic pressure is the local pressure deviation from the ambient (average or equilibrium) atmospheric pressure, caused by a sound wave. In air, sound pressure can be measured using a microphone , and in water with a hydrophone .

  3. Absolute threshold of hearing - Wikipedia

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    The threshold of hearing is generally reported in reference to the RMS sound pressure of 20 micropascals, i.e. 0 dB SPL, corresponding to a sound intensity of 0.98 pW/m 2 at 1 atmosphere and 25 °C. [3] It is approximately the quietest sound a young human with undamaged hearing can detect at 1 kHz. [4]

  4. Hearing loss - Wikipedia

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    According to Baker and Padden, it includes any person or persons who "identifies him/herself as a member of the Deaf community, and other members accept that person as a part of the community," [131] an example being children of deaf adults with normal hearing ability. It includes the set of social beliefs, behaviors, art, literary traditions ...

  5. Hearing aid - Wikipedia

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    As a rule, HAAs have two operation modes: setup mode and hearing aid mode. Setup mode involves the user passing an in situ-audiometry procedure, which determines the user's hearing characteristics. Hearing aid mode is a hearing correction system that corrects the user's hearing in accordance with the user's hearing thresholds.

  6. Ear clearing - Wikipedia

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    Diver clearing ears Section of the human ear, the Eustachian tube is shown in colour. Ear clearing, clearing the ears or equalization is any of various maneuvers to equalize the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure, by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes, as this does not always happen automatically when the pressure in the middle ear is lower than the outside pressure.

  7. Unilateral hearing loss - Wikipedia

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    Known causes include genetics, maternal illness and injury. Examples of these causes are physical trauma, acoustic neuroma, maternal prenatal illness such as measles, labyrinthitis, microtia, meningitis, Ménière's disease, Waardenburg syndrome, mumps (epidemic parotitis), mastoiditis or due to an overstrained nervus vestibulocochlearis after a brain surgery to close to the nerve.

  8. Auditory processing disorder - Wikipedia

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    Auditory processing disorder (APD), rarely known as King-Kopetzky syndrome, is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting the way the brain processes sounds. [2] Individuals with APD usually have normal structure and function of the ear, but cannot process the information they hear in the same way as others do, which leads to difficulties in recognizing and interpreting sounds, especially the ...

  9. Acoustic attenuation - Wikipedia

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    where is the pressure, the position, the wave propagation distance, the angular frequency, () the attenuation coefficient, and and the frequency-dependent exponent are real, non-negative material parameters obtained by fitting experimental data; the value of ranges from 0 to 4.