The clinician is assessing a patient complaining of hearing loss. The clinician places a tuning fork over the patient's mastoid process, and when the sound fades away, the fork is placed without restriking it over the external auditory meatus
The patient is asked to let the clinician know when the sound fades away. This is an example of which type of test?
a. Weber test
b. Schwabach test
c. Rinne test
d. Auditory brainstem response (ABR) test
C
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