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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A hearing test, used primarily for evaluating the loss of hearing in one ear, by comparing the perception of sounds transmitted by air conduction to those transmitted by bone conduction through the mastoid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: otolaryngology
Topics: medicine, sciences
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History
Named after German otologist Heinrich Adolf Rinne (1819–1868).
