evoked otoacoustic emission

Indications

• assessment of inner ear disease
• useful test for hearing defects in newborns & in children too young to cooperate in conventional hearing tests

Clinical significance

• a sound which is generated from within the inner ear
• related to the amplification function of the cochlea
• in the absence of external stimulation, activity of cochlear amplification increases, leading to the production of sound
• lost with inner ear pathology

More general terms

• clinical procedure