Parts of the Ear and Causes of Deafness

A speech banana appears on a(n):

A _______________ hearing loss generally can't be corrected by treatment or surgery.

The single-most frequent cause of hearing loss in young children is:

This child has a foreign object in his ____ ______. (Highlighted portion)

Mixed hearing loss means:

Hearing loss that affects the outer and/or middle ear.

The medical term for ear wax.

Small children tend to have more __________ infections because of their eustachian tubes.

A surgically implanted device that gives a sense of sound to the deaf or hard of hearing.

This is most commonly used in acoustics as a unit of sound pressure level.

______________ is the property of sound that most determines pitch.

Speech perception is usually __________ in people with sensorineural hearing loss.

A compact sound-amplifying device used to help with hearing loss:

Genetic counseling is the process by which the patients at risk of an ___ ____ are advised.

The snail-like part of the inner ear.

A sensorineural hearing loss affects these two parts:  the cochlea and the ___________  ______.

_________________ is the hearing of sound when no external sound is present.

Which one is NOT one of the middle ear bones?

The three main sections of the ear:

_______ ________ can occur from an extremely loud sound such as a shotgun blast near the ear.