| 영문 | hearing aid | 한글 | 보청기 |
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| 설명 | 일종의 확성장치로서 난청을 보충하기 위해 귀에 장착하는 기구. 옛날에는 나팔형의 집음기였던 것이 지금은 보통 음의 증폭을 돕는 전기보청기가 쓰인다. 꼭지에 장착하는 뼈전도도 있으나 대개는 공기전식으로 된 것이 많다. 즉, 음파를 마이크로폰으로 받아 전기진동으로 바꾸어 이것을 증폭기로 확대하여 이어폰으로 다시 음파로 만들어 귀에 들리게 한다. 난청 가운데서도 전음성 난청에는 효과가 있으나, 신경계 기능저하가 원인인 속귀와 관련된 감음성 난청에는 별로 효과를 기대할 수 없다. 보청기의 사용한계는 잘 들리는 쪽 귀의 평균청력손실 30dB(정상청력의 1/30)을 기준으로 하여 이보다 경도일 때는 필요가 없고 그 이상의 장애가 있을 때 적용된다. 보청기는 트랜지스터에서 IC 회로로 전자기술의 진전과 함께 개량되어 감도도 좋을뿐더러 아주 작아지고, 증폭장치부를 여러 형태로 만든 것이 판매되고 있다. 예를 들면, 안경테에 세트되어 있는 안경형, 귀에 걸게 되어 있는 귀뒤형, 여자의 머리핀 형이나 넥타이핀 형, 포켓형 등이 있다. |
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| 영문 | hearing test | 한글 | 청력검사 |
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| 설명 | 귀가 들리는 정도를 측정하는 검사. 청각검사라고도 한다. 소리나 목소리가 잘 들리는지의 여부 등 청각의 예민한 정도를 측정하는 일이다. 검사에는 청력계나 소리굽쇠 등의 기구에 의해서 얻는 음원, 즉 순음을 사용하며, 사람의 목소리나 시계소리 등도 음원으로 사용된다. 또 음파가 전파되는 매질에 따라 기도 청력검사와 골도 청력검사로 구별되기도 한다. 검사의 내용으로는 청각의 상하음계나 최소 가청문턱값의 검사를 비롯하여, 충분히 들리는 소리를 사용하여 그것이 들리는 상태를 조사하는 문턱값검사(소리의 크기와 상태의 검사, 세기의 판별역검사 등) 외에 음향자극의 반응으로부터 타각적으로 조사하는 방법도 있으며, 이것은 주로 갓난아기나 정신병환자에 대하여 사용된다. 주로 청력계가 사용되고, 청력은 데시벨(dB)로 표시된다. 정상인은 0dB이고, 난청자일수록 그 수가 커지며, 60dB이상은 상당히 난청이고, 80dB 이상이면 귀머거리이다. |
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| HFST | hearing for speech test |
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| HL | hairline; hairy leukoplakia; half life; hearing level; hearing loss; heparin lock; histiocytic lymph... |
| HT | Hashimoto thyroiditis; hearing test; hearing threshold; heart; heart transplantation, heart transpla... |
| HHS | [Department of] Health and Human Services; Hearing Handicap Scale; hereditary hemolytic syndrome; hu... |
| APMOMS | Advisory Panel on the Mission and Organization of Medical Schools |
| schools, nursing | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of nursing. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| schools, pharmacy | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of pharmacy. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schools, public health | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of public health. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schools, veterinary | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of veterinary medicine. (12 Dec 1998) |
| library schools | Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of library science or information. (12 Dec 1998) |
| body language | The expression of thoughts and feelings by means of nonverbal bodily movements, e.g., gestures, or via the symptoms of hysterical conversion. See: kinesics. Communication by means of bodily signs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| child language | The language and sounds expressed by a child at a particular maturational stage in development. (12 Dec 1998) |
| schizophrenic language | The artificial language of schizophrenic patients - neologisms (words of the patient's own making with new meanings). (12 Dec 1998) |
| sea language | The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sign language | A system of hand gestures used for communication by the deaf or by people speaking different languages. (12 Dec 1998) |
| natural language processing | Computer processing of a language with rules that reflect and describe current usage rather than prescribed usage. (12 Dec 1998) |
| unified medical language system | A research and development program initiated by the national library of medicine to build an intelligent automated system that can understand biomedical concepts, words, and expressions and their interrelationships, and use this understanding to help users retrieve and organise information from a variety of machine-readable sources. The goal of the umls is to compensate for differences in the terminology of the disparate systems and for variations in user modes of expression. The umls project has produced four knowledge sources meant to be used by user interface programs. These are the metathesaurus, the semantic network, the information sources map, and the specialist lexicon. (12 Dec 1998) |
| language | 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the throat and mouth. Language consists in the oral utterance of sounds which usage has made the representatives of ideas. When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another. This is the primary sense of language, the use of which is to communicate the thoughts of one person to another through the organs of hearing. Articulate sounds are represented to the eye by letters, marks, or characters, which form words. 2. The expression of ideas by writing, or any other instrumentality. 3. The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation. 4. The characteristic mode of arranging words, peculiar to an individual speaker or writer; manner of expression; style. "Others for language all their care express." (Pope) 5. The inarticulate sounds by which animals inferior to man express their feelings or their wants. 6. The suggestion, by objects, actions, or conditions, of ideas associated therewith; as, the language of flowers. "There was . . . Language in their very gesture." (Shak) 7. The vocabulary and phraseology belonging to an art or department of knowledge; as, medical language; the language of chemistry or theology. 8. A race, as distinguished by its speech. "All the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshiped the golden image." (Dan. Iii. 7) Language master, a teacher of languages. Synonym: Speech, tongue, idiom, dialect, phraseology, diction, discourse, conversation, talk. Language, Speech, Tongue, Idiom, Dialect. Language is generic, denoting, in its most extended use, any mode of conveying ideas; speech is the language of articulate sounds; tongue is the Anglo-Saxon tern for language, especially. For spoken language; as, the English tongue. Idiom denotes the forms of construction peculiar to a particular language; dialects are varieties if expression which spring up in different parts of a country among people speaking substantially the same language. Origin: OE. Langage, F. Langage, fr. L. Lingua the tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. Tongue. See Tongue, cf. Lingual. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| language arts | Skills in the use of language which lead to proficiency in written or spoken communication. (12 Dec 1998) |
| language development | The gradual expansion in complexity and meaning of symbols and sounds as perceived and interpreted by the individual through a maturational and learning process. Stages in development include babbling, cooing, word imitation with cognition, and use of short sentences. (12 Dec 1998) |