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  Glossary of medical terms related to communications disorders - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Auditory Brainstem Response test (ABR test) - a test for brain functioning in comatose, unresponsive, etc., patients, and for hearing in infants and young children; involves attaching electrodes to the head to record electrical activity from the hearing nerve and other parts of the brain.
Auditory nerve - eighth cranial nerve that connects the inner ear to the brainstem and is responsible for hearing and balance.
Brainstem implant - auditory prosthesis that bypasses the cochlea and auditory nerve.
www.questionz.net /Medical_Terms.html   (3536 words)

  
 Ear Prosthesis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Swimmer's Ear or Otitis externa is an inflammation, irritation, or infection of the outer ear and ear canal.
The auditory ganglion is spared (Tsuji et al, 1999) although there are some dissenters (Hinojosa et al, 2002) suggesting that eventually it is concievable that an inner ear prosthesis similar to a...
WMP also donated $8,880 worth of ear prosthesis to the Hospital to be donated to indigent patients over the course of the year.
www.prostheticscenter.com /prosthesis/earprosthesis   (1206 words)

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