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Audiometer

(Latin audio – to hear the audiometer, the Greek metreo relating to ability to hear, hearing + – to define, measure) – the device used to a research of the acoustic analyzer of the person; consists of the sound generator with an adjustable amplitude and frequency of fluctuations (or the speech generator), and also phones of bone and air conductivity.

 
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