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Audiological Diagnostics Glossary

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Pure-Tone Audiometry PTA

Basic Technical IVT

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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SNR

Intermediate Technical

Abbreviation for signal-to-noise ratio; the decibel difference between a target signal and competing background noise in...

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