Glossary
Audiologist Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential audiologist terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key audiologist vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in audiologist training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- AuD
- Doctor of Audiology.
- Audiogram
- A chart of hearing levels.
- Cochlear implant
- A device that stimulates the hearing nerve.
- Conductive hearing loss
- Loss from the outer or middle ear.
- Decibel
- A unit of sound level.
- Hearing protection
- Devices that block loud sound.
- Newborn screening
- Hearing tests for babies.
- Noise-induced hearing loss
- Damage from loud sound.
- Otoacoustic emissions
- Sounds the inner ear makes.
- Real-ear measurement
- Verifying hearing aid output.
- Sensorineural hearing loss
- Loss from the inner ear or nerve.
- Speech in noise
- Understanding speech with background noise.
- Tinnitus
- Ringing in the ears.
- Tympanometry
- Tests middle ear function.
- Vestibular
- Related to balance.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Audiologist practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Audiologist training.
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