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2. Audiogram - Wikipedia

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   Audiograms are unable to measure hidden hearing loss, [15] [16] which is the inability to distinguish between sounds in loud environments such as restaurants. Hidden hearing loss is caused by synaptopathy in the cochlea, [17] as opposed to sensorineural hearing loss caused by hair cell dysfunction. Audiograms are designed to "estimate the ...

3. Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: What It Is And How to Treat It - AOL

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   Adults, as well as children, experience hearing loss if the sound intensity is loud enough. According to the NIH, data from 2005-2006 estimated that 17% of teenagers had noise-induced hearing loss ...

4. Hearing range - Wikipedia

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   Logarithmic chart of the hearing ranges of some animals [1] [2] Hearing range describes the frequency range that can be heard by humans or other animals, though it can also refer to the range of levels. The human range is commonly given as 20 to 20,000 Hz, although there is considerable variation between individuals, especially at high ...

5. Decibel - Wikipedia

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   The decibel originates from methods used to quantify signal loss in telegraph and telephone circuits. Until the mid-1920s, the unit for loss was miles of standard cable (MSC). 1 MSC corresponded to the loss of power over one mile (approximately 1.6 km) of standard telephone cable at a frequency of 5000 radians per second (795.8 Hz), and matched closely the smallest attenuation detectable to a ...

6. Noise-induced hearing loss - Wikipedia

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   Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) is a hearing impairment resulting from exposure to loud sound.People may have a loss of perception of a narrow range of frequencies or impaired perception of sound including sensitivity to sound or ringing in the ears. [1]

7. 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]

8. Sound intensity - Wikipedia

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   being approximately the lowest sound intensity hearable by an undamaged human ear under room conditions. The proper notations for sound intensity level using this reference are L I /(1 pW/m 2) or L I (re 1 pW/m 2), but the notations dB SIL, dB(SIL), dBSIL, or dB SIL are very common, even if they are not accepted by the SI. [6]

9. Pure-tone audiometry - Wikipedia

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   Sensorineural hearing loss will have a contoured shape depending on the cause. Presbycusis or age-related hearing loss for example is characterized by a high frequency roll-off (increase in thresholds). Noise-induced hearing loss has a characteristic notch at 4000 Hz. Other contours may indicate other causes for the hearing loss.