Raymond Carhart

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Raymond Theodore Carhart (born March 28, 1912 in Mexico City , † October 2, 1975 ) was an American audiologist at Northwestern University , Evanston (Illinois) .

Carhart was known by the named after him carhart sink (English carhart Notch ) of the tonaudiometrischen bone conduction in otosclerosis . It is noteworthy that this depression disappears after successful stirrup surgery. Carhart described this finding in 1950 at the first international audiology congress in Stockholm. The Threshold Tone Decay Test , which he described in 1957 , also bears his name .

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