Test category · Specialty diagnostics

Hearing & balance

Hearing thresholds, middle-ear and inner-ear function, and the tests that find the cause of dizziness and vertigo.

Tests with a page

No test in this category has a full page yet. The concepts below are catalogued and waiting to be written to the site's quality standard.

Also in this category: catalogued concepts

Canonical test concepts of this category that do not yet have their own page. They are listed so that the taxonomy is complete and searchable; a page is written only when it can meet the quality standard.

  • Pure-tone audiometry (PTA) · also: hearing test Functional test
  • Speech audiometry Functional test
  • Tympanometry Functional test
  • Acoustic reflex testing · also: stapedial reflex Functional test
  • Otoacoustic emissions (OAE) · also: newborn hearing screen Functional test
  • Auditory brainstem response (ABR) Functional test
  • Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP) Functional test
  • Electronystagmography (ENG) Functional test
  • Videonystagmography (VNG) Functional test
  • Caloric testing Functional test
  • Rotary-chair testing Functional test
  • Video head-impulse test (vHIT) Functional test
  • Dix-Hallpike manoeuvre · also: Dix-Hallpike test, BPPV test Examination
  • Posturography Functional test
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