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| pertaining to the sensation of hearing |
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| pertaining to the sensation of body position |
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| pertaining to the sensation of smell |
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| having a damaging effect on cranial nerve VIII or the organs of hearing and balance. (due to some medications) |
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| the conscious mental recognition or registration of a sensory stimulus, as, for example, when a person smells a sweet fragrance and gets a mental image of a cherry |
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| a sensorineural hearing loss of high-frequency tones that occurs in the elderly and may lead to a loss of all hearing frequencies |
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| a decrease in the elasticity of the lens with age that impairs the ability to focus on near objects |
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| reticular activating system (RAS) |
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| located in the midbrain and thalamus; keeps the brain aroused |
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| the reception of stimulation through receptors of the nervous system |
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| inadequate reception or perception of environmental stimuli |
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| results from excessive environmental stimuli or a level of stimulus beyond the person's ability to absorb or comprehend it |
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| pertaining to the sensation of touch |
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| pertaining to the sensation of sight |
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| hearing test that evaluates transmission of sound through the bones of the skull to the cochlea and acoustic nerve - this transmission is called bone conduction. nurse places a vibrating turing fork in the middle of the client's forehead. |
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| hearing test that compares bone conduction to air conduction in both ears. nurse places a vibrating tuning fork on the clients mastoid bone to assess bone conduction |
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| results from a problem in the outer or middles ear that reduces sensitivity to tone received by air conduction. |
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| a weakening of sound produced in some portion of the sensorineural mechanision (loss in nerves) |
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| an abnormal sensation (tingling) |
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| decreased sensitivity to stimulation |
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| decreased sensitivity to pain |
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| impaired (decreased) sense of touch |
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| opacities of the lens that cause gradual painless blurring of the vision - milky white lens. |
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| sensory disturbances secondary to microvascular changes int eh retina of the eye due to diabetes mellitus |
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| deterioration of macula - gradual loss of the central vision. leading cause of blindness in older adults |
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| disease of the optic nerve resulting from increased pressure inside the eye. blind spots initially then loss of peripheral vision |
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