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Appendix A: Definitions and Technical Terms
Appendix A: Definitions and Technical Terms
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Whenever Social Security makes a decision that affects your eligibility for Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, we send you a letter explaining our decision.
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, survi vor, and disability programs provide monthly cash benefits and Medicare pro vides medical coverage. Child We use the term "child" to include your biological child or any other child who can inherit your personal property under state law or who meets certain specific require ments under the Social Security Act; such as: · A legally adopted child, · An equitably adopted child,
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Credits (Social Previously called "Quarters of Coverage." As Security Credits) you work and pay taxes, you earn credits that count toward your eligibility for future Social Security benefits.
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Government Site for Medicare Information. Insured Status If you earned enough Social Security credits to meet the eligibility requirement for retire ment or disability benefits or enable your dependents to establish eligibility for benefits due to your retirement, disability, or death, you have insured status.
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Medicare A nationwide, federally administered health insurance program that covers the cost of hospitalization, medical care, and some related services for most people over age 65, people receiving Social Security Disability Insurance benefits for 2 years, and people with end-stage renal disease. Medicare con sists of two separate but coordinated pro grams -- Part A (Hospital Insurance)
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Supplemental A federal supplemental income program Security Income (SSI) funded by general tax revenues (not Social Security taxes)
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Sometimes referred to as the "Num ber Holder" or "Worker." Widow You are the widow/widower of the insured person if, at the time the insured person died: · You and the insured person were validly married or · You would have the status of a husband or a wife for that person's personal property if they had no will or · You went through a marriage ceremony in good faith that would have been valid except for a legal impediment. The minimum age for · Disabled widows benefits is age 50.
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Air Conduction The term for the transmission of sound through the outer ear, the bones of the middle ear, and into the inner ear. Air-Bone Gap The difference between the pure-tone thresh olds assessed by air conduction (reflects the sensitivity of the entire peripheral auditory system)
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, which broadcasts to a telecoil that serves as a receiver. Hearing aids without a T-switch to activate a telecoil can use a special induction receiver to pick up the sound.
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Some of these potentials can be used to diagnose hearing loss. Auditory Nerve Former name for the eighth cranial nerve, now called the Vestibulocochlear Nerve, that connects the inner ear to the brainstem and is responsible for hearing and balance.
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Also called the Pinna. Autoimmune Deafness Condition in which an individual's immune system produces abnormal antibodies or cellular responses that attack the body's healthy tissues and cause hearing loss.
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Central Auditory Inability to differentiate, recognize, or underProcessing Disorder stand sounds due to abnormal brain function despite normal inner ear and eighth nerve function. Cerumen See Ear Wax.
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Conductive Hearing Loss Hearing loss caused by a problem of the outer or middle ear, resulting in the inability of sound to be conducted to the inner ear. Congenital Hearing Loss Hearing loss that is present from birth and may or may not be hereditary.
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Eustachian Tube Tube running from the nasal cavity to the middle ear, which opens during yawning and swallowing to allow air to flow to the middle ear. Helps keep middle ear pressure equal to ambient air pressure.
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Hair Cells Sensory cells of the inner ear, which are topped with hair-like structures, the stereo cilia, and which aid in the transduction of the mechanical energy of sound waves into nerve impulses. Haptic Sense Sense of physical contact or touch.
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Immitance Audiometry Measurement of the function of the middle ear, used to diagnose conductive hearing loss. Incus One of three bones of the middle ear that help transmit sound waves from the outer ear to the cochlea.
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Middle Ear The part of the ear that includes the eardrum and three tiny bones of the middle ear, end ing at the oval and round windows that lead to the inner ear, and connected to the nasal cavity by the Eustachian tube. Neural Prostheses Devices, such as the cochlear implant, that substitute for an injured or diseased part of the nervous system.
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Organ of Corti The organ, located in the cochlea, which contains the hair cells that transduce sound waves into neural impulses that travel through the auditory nerve to the brain. Ossicles Collective name for the three bones of the middle ear.
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and the ear canal and is separated from the middle ear by the ear drum. Oval Window Opening in the bony wall of the cochlea to which is attached the footplate of the stapes bone; stapes vibration transmits sound into the cochlea.
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Round Window One of two membranes separating the middle ear and the inner ear.
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. Stapes One of three bones of the middle ear that help transmit sound waves from the outer ear to the cochlea.
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Text Telephone Formerly TDD or TTY; a text telephone is a telecommunications device used by those who cannot understand speech on the phone. A typewriter-like unit shows the conversation on a screen so that it can be read.
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Vestibulocochlear Nerve The eighth cranial nerve, formerly called the auditory nerve, that connects the inner ear to the brainstem and is responsible for hearing and balance. Vibrotactile Aids Mechanical instruments that help individuals who are deaf to detect and interpret sound through the sense of touch.
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Some systems monitor a single event; others can monitor several events and indicate which event has occurred. Waardenburg Syndrome Hereditary disorder that is characterized by hearing impairment, a white shock of hair and/or distinctive blue color to one or both eyes, and wide-set inner corners of the eyes.
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