What's the difference between aural and binaural?

Aural


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Findings included squamous epithelium with acute and chronic inflammation, foreign body granuloma and aural polyps.
  • (2) Literature review showed this to be the first reported case of sigmoid sinus thrombosis in congenital aural atresia.
  • (3) The last 23 patients with malignant external otitis were treated with ciprofloxacin 750 mg twice daily, combined with local excision of the aural lesion.
  • (4) This computerized speechreading assessment and training system simulates face-to-face intervention and is designed to be one component of a comprehensive aural rehabilitation program for preretirement adults with acquired mild-to-moderate hearing loss.
  • (5) Studies of aural and other body tissues suggest that otosclerosis represents the local manifestation of a general disorder of connective tissue.
  • (6) By using monoclonal antibodies against cell-membrane receptors the cellular composition of an aural cholesteatoma can be determined.
  • (7) The competencies expected of students upon completing their professional programs are presented in the form of 'training modules' vis-a-vis basic science, medical educational, hearing conservation, aural rehabilitation and clinical practicum.
  • (8) 29 min: There have been so many offside decisions in this game, the referee's whistle is currently more aurally intrusive than the vuvuzelas.
  • (9) In a review of over 600 patients with major congenital ear malformations, 50 patients (54 ears) were found to have congenital aural stenosis.
  • (10) Vessels were imaged with epi-illuminated fluorescence microscopy as they carried FITC-dextran 70 that had been injected into an aural vein.
  • (11) The first group received hearing aids and participated in a counseling-based aural rehabilitation (AR) program.
  • (12) We found that the histology of the aural polyp was not a precise predictor of the presence or absence of cholesteatoma, nor of the subsequent course of the middle ear disease.
  • (13) In total, 467 biopsy specimens from genital, anal, oral, aural and nasal lesions were examined for HPV6, HPV11, HPV16 and HPV18 DNA by spot hybridization.
  • (14) It would seem that these aural preparations are complementary, capable of resulting in the disappearance of the majority of bacterial agents responsible for pathogenic otorrhoea.
  • (15) A new method for removal of aural foreign bodies is introduced, employing the injection of a semifluid impression material into the external auditory canal, and its removal after curing with the engulfed foreign matter.
  • (16) Tests of reading and arithmetic achievement, visuomotor coordination, aural-visual coordination, auditory discrimination, and behavioural rating scales were administered.
  • (17) The Gruber aural speculum, gave a completely, uninterrupted view of the choana.
  • (18) People might not be facing an incident, but they can still have an acoustic experience of it.” Deprived of their visual sense for months and years on end, the Saydnaya detainees developed an acute aural sensitivity, able to identify the different sounds of belts, electrical cables or broomsticks on flesh, and the difference between bodies being punched, kicked or beaten against the wall.
  • (19) The large number of children wearing inadequate amplification demonstrates the need for constant hearing aid monitoring and earmold check as part of aural rehabilitation and educational programs for hearing-impaired children.
  • (20) Temporal response to a simulated rapid change in acoustic immittance was recorded from 13 aural acoustic-immittance devices.

Binaural


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The binaural characteristics of cells in MSO were different from those in nonecholocating mammals.
  • (2) Endogenous sound-induced (binaural) inhibition which is suggested to be GABA-mediated is also significantly reduced in IC neurons of the GEPR.
  • (3) Binaural difference waves (BDWs), obtained by subtracting the sum of two monaural BAEPs from a binaural BAEP, were obtained in 16- to 20-day-old jaundiced Gunn rats before and after injection of sulfadimethoxine, which produces bilirubin neurotoxicity by promoting net transfer of bilirubin out of the circulation into brain tissue.
  • (4) A binaural noise with an interaural time difference of 0.8 msec was presented in three conditions: alone, with intervening noise that was identical between the two ears, or with uncorrelated intervening noise.
  • (5) The results show that the binaural responses may be interpreted as the sum of two monaural responses.
  • (6) The frequency dependence of the binaural interaction component of the auditory brainstem response was examined.
  • (7) MLDs of 11--14 dB were obtained for the low-pass transients independent of the number of transients, repetition rate, or type of binaural configuration.
  • (8) The present results suggest that the binaural system is relatively insensitive to motion.
  • (9) The ipsilateral, binaural, and no-music groups did not differ significantly from each other.
  • (10) In the filtered speech test the binaural test result and the monaural discrimination ability of the left ear were significantly better than the monaural test results for the right ear up to the age of 12-13 years.
  • (11) Binaural interaction (BI) in the ABR was assessed in difference traces, derived by subtracting summed binaural from summed monaural waveforms.
  • (12) These findings suggest that the neural circuits underlying auditory spatial sensitivity of IC neurons of the monaurally plugged juvenile bats have undergone modifications to compensate for the unnatural binaural disparity during postnatal development.
  • (13) ERPs utilized binaural stimulation with 1000 and 3000 Hz tones in an 80:20 ratio, with interstimulus interval 1.1 second, analysis time 1000 ms, and filter band pass 1-100 Hz.
  • (14) Hearing may be attributed with correlation abilities processing binaural signals.
  • (15) Binaural detection thresholds in quiet were measured with and without the protectors worn at the initial insertion and after a period of one to one and one-half hours during which lunch was eaten.
  • (16) Auditory clicks were presented binaurally at 70 dBnHL with a frequency of 9.3 Hz.
  • (17) Compared to standard values the binaural perception was significantly reduced.
  • (18) The fitting procedure showed that the shape of the owls' binaural temporal window could be described by the same algorithms as the human monaural temporal window.
  • (19) Microelectrode recordings revealed high levels of spontaneous activity in n. magnocellularis and n. laminaris, the binaural target of n. magnocellularis neurons.
  • (20) The binaural response properties of neurons in the auditory cortex of the albino rat were examined using microelectrode mapping techniques.

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