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2. How to Read An Audiogram (Hearing Test) - AOL

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   Key Takeaways: An audiogram shows the softest sounds (volume: soft to loud) you hear at each frequency (low to high pitches). The lower the line on the graph, the worse your hearing is at that ...

3. Noise-induced hearing loss - Wikipedia

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   Tinnitus is described as hearing a sound when an external sound is not present. [13] Noise-induced hearing loss can cause high-pitched tinnitus. [14] An estimated 50 million Americans have some degree of tinnitus in one or both ears; 16 million of them have symptoms serious enough for them to see a doctor or hearing specialist.

4. Shrillness - Wikipedia

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   Shrillness is a word used to describe the quality of sounds that have a high-pitched, strident, raucous, screeching or harsh character, such as those produced by a trumpet or piccolo, but it can also be used to describe a widely recognised and puzzling phenomenon whereby certain sounds are perceived as psychologically painful or aversive to a degree that cannot be accounted for simply in terms ...

5. Hearing range - Wikipedia

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   A basic measure of hearing is afforded by an audiogram, a graph of the absolute threshold of hearing (minimum discernible sound level) at various frequencies throughout an organism's nominal hearing range. [4] Behavioural hearing tests or physiological tests can be used to find the hearing thresholds of humans and other animals.

6. Audiogram - Wikipedia

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   Hearing thresholds of humans and other mammals can be found with behavioural hearing tests or physiological tests used in audiometry. For adults, a behavioural hearing test involves a tester who presents tones at specific frequencies and intensities . When the testee hears the sound he or she responds (e.g., by raising a hand or pressing a button.

7. The 7 best OTC hearing aids for seniors, according to ... - AOL

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   The sound profile is richer compared to other models, with controls for volume, balance, and directionality of sound in the app. These in-the-ear hearing aids are water- and dust-resistant with an ...

8. Audiometry - Wikipedia

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   A pure tone audiometry hearing test is the gold standard for evaluation of hearing loss or disability. [medical citation needed] Other types of hearing tests also generate graphs or tables of results that may be loosely called 'audiograms', but the term is universally used to refer to the result of a pure tone audiometry hearing test.

9. Health effects from noise - Wikipedia

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   Though the pathophysiology of tinnitus is not known, noise exposure can be a contributing factor, therefore tinnitus can be associated with hearing loss, generated by the cochlea and central nervous system (CNS). High frequency hearing loss causes a high pitched tinnitus and low frequency hearing loss causes a roaring tinnitus. [19]