Editing Hearing test (section)

{{Short description|Evaluation of the sensitivity of a person's sense of hearing}}
{{Infobox diagnostic
| Name = Hearing test
| Image = HearingExam.jpg
| Caption = A hearing health professional conducting an audiometric hearing test in a sound-treated testing booth
| alt = a female medical professional is seated in front of a special sound-proof booth with a glass window, controlling diagnostic test equipment. Inside the booth a middle aged man can be seen wearing headphones and is looking straight ahead of himself, not at the tester, and appears to be concentrating on hearing something
| ICD10 = {{ICD10|F13Z}}
| ICD9 = {{ICD9|95.41}}
| MeshID = D006320
| OtherCodes = |
}}
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A '''hearing test''' provides an evaluation of the sensitivity of a person's sense of [[hearing (sense)|hearing]] and is most often performed by an [[audiologist]] using an [[audiometer]].  An audiometer is used to determine a person's hearing sensitivity at different [[Audio frequency|frequencies]]. There are other hearing tests as well, e.g., [[Weber test]] and [[Rinne test]].