If you attended any scientific or clinical meetings in 2014, you probably heard the phrase "hidden hearing loss" more than once. What exactly do these buzzwords mean, and how will they affect your practice?Let's start with the familiar term of hearing loss, which traditionally has been defined by the audiogram, A person is considered to have hearing loss if he or she has a pure-tone threshold above 20 dB HL at one or more octave frequencies, typically from 125 Hz to 8,000 Hz.
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机译：如果您参加了2014年的任何科学或临床会议，您可能会不止一次听到“隐性听力损失”这一短语。这些流行语的确切含义是什么，它们将如何影响您的实践？让我们从熟悉的听力损失一词开始，该术语通常由听力图定义，如果一个人纯净，一个或多个八度音阶频率（通常从125 Hz至8,000 Hz）上高于20 dB HL的音频阈值。
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