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Glossary

  • Acceptable Noise Level Test (ANL)
  • Acoustic Nerve
  • Acoustic Neuroma
  • Acquired Deafness
  • ACS
  • Acuity
  • Adaptability
  • Adaptive Microphone and directionality
  • Advanced Bionics
  • Advanced Noise Reduction
  • Air-Conduction Thresholds
  • Algorithm
  • Amplifier
  • Amplitude
  • Ampulla
  • Analogue Hearing Aid
  • Antihelix
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Assistive Listening Devices (ALD’s)
  • Asymmetrical Hearing Loss
  • Atresia
  • Audible
  • Audiogram
  • Audiologist
  • Audiometer
  • Auditory Perception
  • Auditory Processing Disorder (APD)
  • Aural Rehabilitation
  • Aventa
  • BAHA accessories
  • Band
  • Bandwidth
  • Barotrauma
  • Behind The Ear Hearing Aid (BTE)
  • Beltone
  • Bernafon
  • Bilateral
  • Binaural
  • Bluetooth
  • Body worn hearing aid
  • Bone Anchored Hearing Aid (BAHA)
  • Bone Conduction
  • CENS
  • Cerumen
  • Cerustop
  • Channel
  • Cholesteatoma
  • Cochlea
  • Cochlear Implant
  • Compass
  • Completely In The Canal Hearing Aid (CIC)
  • Compression
  • Concha
  • Conductive Hearing Loss
  • Congenital Hearing loss
  • Connex
  • Coselgi
  • CROS Hearing aid
  • Custom Hearing Aid
  • Data Learning
  • Data Logging
  • Decibel (dB)
  • Digital
  • Digital Processor
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  • Digital Surround Zoom
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  • Directional Microphone
  • Directional Polar Pattern
  • Discrimination
  • Dispenser
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  • Dynamic Range
  • Ear wax
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  • Earol
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  • Etiology
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  • Eustachian Tube Dysfunction
  • Exostosis
  • Feedback
  • Feedback cancellation (phase cancellation)
  • Feedback suppression
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Band
  • Full shell hearing aid
  • Gain
  • Genie
  • GnResound
  • GnResound Mini Mic
  • GnResound Phone Clip
  • GnResound Remote Control
  • GnResound TV Streamer
  • Grommet
  • Group delay
  • Hair cells
  • Half Shell Hearing Aid (HS)
  • Hansaton
  • Head Shadow Effect
  • Hearing
  • Hearing Aid
  • Hearing Aids
  • Hearing Disorder
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  • Helix
  • Hereditary hearing loss
  • Hertz (Hz)
  • High frequency hearing loss
  • Hyperacusis
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  • Impression
  • In-The-Canal (ITC) hearing aid
  • In-The-Ear (ITE) hearing aid
  • Incus
  • Induction coil (aka loop system )
  • Infrared
  • Inner ear
  • Insertion Gain
  • Inspire
  • Intensity
  • iPFG
  • Kamplex
  • Kilohertz (kHz)
  • Labyrinth
  • Labyrinthitis
  • Linear
  • Localization
  • Loop System
  • Malingering
  • Malleus
  • Masking Noise
  • Mastoid
  • Menieres Disease
  • Microphone
  • Microtia
  • Middle Ear
  • Middle Ear Effusion
  • Mixed Hearing Loss
  • Monaural
  • Most Comfortable Level
  • Mucous Membranes
  • Nanocare
  • Nerve Deafness
  • Noise-Induced Hearing Loss
  • Non-Organic Hearing Loss
  • Nystagmus
  • Occlusion
  • Occlusion Effect
  • On-The-Ear (OTE) Hearing Aid/ Open Ear Hearing Aid
  • Organ Of Corti
  • Oscillation
  • Ossicles
  • Otalgia
  • Otitis Externa
  • Otitis Media
  • Otitis Media With Effusion
  • Otoblock
  • Otorrhea
  • Otosclerosis
  • Otoscope
  • Ototoxic Medication
  • Output Limiting
  • Oval Window
  • Perforatied Eardrum
  • Perilymph
  • Perilymph Fistula
  • Phonak
  • Phonak ComPilot
  • Phonak DECT
  • Phonak Pilot One
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  • Phonak TV Streamer
  • Phoneme
  • Pinna
  • Pitch
  • Power Hearing Aid
  • Presbycusis
  • Probe Microphone
  • Pure Tone Audiometry (PTA)
  • QuickSin
  • Rayovac
  • Real Ear Measurement
  • Receiver
  • Recruitment
  • Retrocochlear
  • Reverberation
  • Reverse-Slope Audiogram
  • Round Window
  • Saccule
  • Scala Media
  • Scala Tympani
  • Scala Vestibuli
  • Screening
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  • Sensori-Neural Hearing Loss (SNHL)
  • Siemens
  • Sign Language
  • Signal-to-Noise Ratio
  • Sound Field Hearing Aid Test
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  • Speech Mapping
  • Speech Reception Threshold
  • Stapedius Muscle
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  • Swimplugs
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  • Tinnitus
  • Tinnitus Masking
  • Tonotopy
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  • TTS (Temporary Threshold Shift)
  • Tuning Fork
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  • Tympanometry
  • Uncomfortable Loudness Level
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  • Vent
  • Vertigo
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  • Visual Reinforcement Audiometry
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