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| | eMedicine - Audiology, Pure-Tone Testing : Article by Ginger Mullin, AuD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Synonyms and related keywords: pure-tone testing, air conduction, bone conduction, audiometry, pure tone testing, basic battery, basic audiologic assessment, presbyacusis, otitis media, noise-induced hearing loss, otosclerosis, Ménière disease, conductive hearing loss, sensorineural hearing loss, mixed hearing loss, ear infection |
 | | In a sound field, the auditory signals are warble tones or bursts of narrow-band noise. |
 | | Pure tones cannot be used because they can create standing waves in a sound field, which can alter signal intensity. |
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