Disciplines and Occupations

Audiology

Allied medical specialty that studies hearing and hearing impairment.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Allied medical specialty that studies hearing and hearing impairment.

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing 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

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History Note

78; was see under HEARING 1963-74

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Previous Indexing

  • Hearing (1966-1977)

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NLM Classification

WV 21

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Audiology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001298. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001298
  2. Audiology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiology
  3. Audiology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q569965