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Test Your Knowledge on Hearing Loss

Developed by - Medindia Content Team

Health Quiz reviewed by - The Medindia Medical Review Team

Last Updated on Apr 24, 2012

This Quiz has 13 questions.

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Hearing Loss Quiz Responses

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Test Your Knowledge on Hearing Loss

A little difficulty in hearing is natural with the aging process but if the auditory damage occurs because of other reasons, it can be a cause for concern. Take this quiz to find out how much you know about hearing loss.

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Hyperacusis

Hyperacusis is a chronic hearing disorder characterized by hypersensitive and abnormal hearing problem to noises, usually accompanied by tinnitus.

Harmful Effects of Listening to Music Over Earphones / Headphones

Harmful Effects of Listening to Music Over Earphones / Headphones

Effects of over-exposure to loud music from earphones is gaining concern. Headphones used at unsafe volumes for prolonged periods may result in hearing loss.

Speech and Language in a Hearing Impaired Child

Speech and Language in a Hearing Impaired Child

Language acquisition occurs mostly by hearing and listening. But when there is a problem in the auditory pathway, deliberate measures are needed for the process that otherwise occurs so naturally.

Online Hearing Tests

Online Hearing Tests

Online hearing tests enable you to test your hearing to check slow or sudden hearing loss right at your home. The results of these hearing tests direct further action.

Occupational Hearing Loss

Occupational Hearing Loss

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Top 10 Tips to Help Protect your Hearing

Top 10 Tips to Help Protect your Hearing

Protect your hearing and avoid hazardous noise levels for hearing loss prevention. Sound levels must be monitored for safe listening and preserve good hearing.

Hearing Aids and Cell Phones Compatibility

Hearing Aids and Cell Phones Compatibility

People with hearing loss using hearing aids should buy cell phones carefully.

Temporary and Permanent Hearing Loss in Adults

Temporary and Permanent Hearing Loss in Adults

Understanding various causes of hearing loss can help conserve hearing especially if it is a temporary hearing loss. Permanent hearing impairment can be managed with a proper hearing aid fitting.

Ear Blockage / Wax Blockage

Ear Blockage / Wax Blockage

Ear Blockage / Wax Blockage

Hearing Aids

Hearing aid is an electronic device that helps people with hearing loss to hear more and communicate more effectively. Only 1 out of 5 people benefit from a hearing aid.

Otitis Media

Middle ear infection, or otitis media, is a common type of infection that may or may not accompany the infections of nose and throat. It is the infection of any part of the middle ear.

Anatomy of Ear and Hearing - Animation

Anatomy of Ear and Hearing - Animation

Ear converts sound waves into electrical impulses that are transmitted to the temporal lobe of the brain through the auditory nerve. It consists of outer, inner and middle sections.

Stem Cell Trial for Hearing Loss

Stem Cell Trial for Hearing Loss

A ground-breaking trial to test the use of umbilical cord blood transplants to treat hearing loss in infants has begun in US.

Diabetic Women At Higher Risk of Hearing Loss

Diabetic Women At Higher Risk of Hearing Loss

Women with diabetes are at an increased risk of suffering from age-related hearing loss.

Ototoxicity / Ear Poisoning

Ototoxicity / Ear Poisoning

Ototoxicity is the hearing loss caused by drugs or substances that harm the hearing system. Ototoxic drugs may harm cochlea, vestibule or vestibulocochlear nerve.