audiometry

English

Etymology

From audio- +‎ -metry.

Noun

audiometry (countable and uncountable, plural audiometries)

1. (medicine) The quantitative assessment of a person's hearing ability, especially by means of an audiometer.
   • 1997, Henry Tobin, Practical Hearing Aid Selection And Fitting:

     The first visit includes pure-tone, speech and immittance audiometry, loudness judgments for pulsed tones, assessment of individuals' motivation toward amplification, counselling . . .

Related terms

• audiometer
• audiometric
• audiometrist
• audiometrician
• audiogram

Translations

assessment of a person's hearing ability

• Armenian: լսաչափություն (hy) (lsačʻapʻutʻyun), աուդիոմետրիա (hy) (audiometria)
• Catalan: audiometria f
• Finnish: audiometria
• Greek: ακοομετρία (el) f (akoometría)
• Indonesian: audiometri
• Irish: closmhéadracht f
• Italian: audiometria (it) f
• Macedonian: аудиометрија f (audiometrija)
• Polish: audiometria (pl) f
• Portuguese: audiometria (pt) f
• Spanish: audiometría (es) f

Further reading

• audiometry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia