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Descriptor English: Audiology
Descriptor Spanish: Audiología
Descriptor audiología
Scope note: Especialidad médica que estudia la audición y las alteraciones auditivas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Audiologia
Descriptor French: Audiologie
Tree number(s): H02.010.150
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001298
Scope note: Allied medical specialty that studies hearing and hearing impairment.
Annotation: use for the specialty only; do not confuse with HEARING (physiologic process) or HEARING TESTS or AUDIOMETRY (a specific type of hearing test); AMERICAN SPEECH-LANGUAGE-HEARING ASSOCIATION is also available
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Hearing (1966-1977)
Public MeSH Note: 78; was see under HEARING 1963-74
Online Note: search HEARING 1966-74
History Note: 78; was see under HEARING 1963-74
Entry Version: AUDIOL
Related: Otolaryngology MeSH
DeCS ID: 29323
Unique ID: D001298
NLM Classification: WV 21
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1978/01/01
Date of Entry: 1977/05/12
Revision Date: 2016/07/05
Audiology - Preferred
Concept UI M0001956
Scope note Allied medical specialty that studies hearing and hearing impairment.
Preferred term Audiology



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