- audiometry
- 1. The measurement of hearing. 2. The use of an audiometer. 3. Rapid measurement of the hearing of an individual or a group against a predetermined limit of normalcy; auditory responses to different frequencies presented at a constant intensity level are tested. SYN: screening a..- automatic a. a. in which the subject controls increases and decreases in intensity at a fixed frequency or more usually as the frequency of the stimulus is gradually changed so that the subject traces back and forth across the threshold of hearing. SYN: Békésy a..- behavioral observation a. a method of observing the motor responses of young children to test sound intensities to determine the hearing threshold.- Békésy a. SYN: automatic a..- cortical a. measurement of the potentials that arise in the auditory system above the level of the brainstem.- diagnostic a. measurement of hearing threshold levels to determine the nature and degree of hearing impairment ( i.e., conductive, sensorineural, or mixed).
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au·di·om·e·try .ȯd-ē-'äm-ə-trē n, pl -tries the testing and measurement of hearing acuity for variations in sound intensity and pitch and for tonal purityau·dio·met·ric .ȯd-ē-ō-'me-trik adjau·di·om·e·trist .ȯd-ē-'äm-ə-trəst n* * *
au·di·om·e·try (aw″de-omґə-tre) measurement of hearing, as by means of an audiometer.
Medical dictionary. 2011.