bone conduction

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bone conduction

The process by which sound waves are transmitted to the inner ear by the cranial bones without traveling through the air in the ear canal.

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According to new report available with Million Insights, Bone conduction devices are specially designed to use body's natural ability to transmit sound.

Bone Conduction Devices Market Is Driven By Increasing Technological Advancements And Growing Preference By Patients For Better Comfort Till 2023 / Million Insights

The Bonebridge System (BB, Med-El Corporation, Innsbruck, Austria), is one of these transcutaneous bone conduction hearing implants.

Objective and subjective results of the Bonebridge transcutaneous active direct-drive bone conduction hearing implant

The Rinne test compares the perception of sound waves transmitted by air conduction vs bone conduction and serves as a rapid screen for conductive hearing loss.

CASE REPORT

Evidence of inner ear contribution in bone conduction in chinchilla.

Implications for Bone Conduction Mechanisms from Thresholds of Post Radical Mastoidectomy and Subtotal Petrosectomy Patients

[USA], Sep 10 ( ANI ): Researchers from Sweden have developed a new testing device - using bone conduction technology - to help improve the diagnosis of dizziness.

Improving the diagnosis of dizziness

First described by Carhart in 1950, it relates to a false elevation in bone conduction with a peak at 2 kHz ranging in frequency from 500 to 4,000 Hz associated with a conductive hearing loss.

Stapes surgery in patients with a small air-bone gap

The display panel on the device used vibration and bone conduction in order to emit sound from the display itself, rather than the earpiece speaker.

Galaxy S10 Rumored To Include Sound-Emitting Display

This study aimed to analyze the bone conduction thresholds before and after surgery in chronic otitis media patients with cholesteatoma who had labyrinthine fistula and whose cholesteatoma matrix had been completely cleaned.

Assessment of Bone Conduction Thresholds After Surgical Treatment in Patients with Labyrinthine Fistula

"Previous studies have shown this bone conduction might be a viable mode of hearing."