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Audiological Diagnostics Glossary
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Pure-Tone Audiometry PTA
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A behavioural hearing test that measures an individual's hearing thresholds for pure tones at discrete frequencies to determine the degree and configuration of hearing loss.
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Speech Recognition Threshold
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IVT
The lowest hearing level in dB at which a patient can correctly identify 50% of presented spondaic words, used to valida...
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Word Recognition Score
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The percentage of monosyllabic words correctly identified by a patient at a suprathreshold presentation level, reflectin...
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