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loudness recruitment (medicine) and lamina elastica anterior (medicine)


loudness recruitment (medicine)


loudness recruitment
<neurology, otolaryngology> An abnormally disproportionate increase in the sensation of loudness in response to a relatively slight increase in intensity of an acoustic signal.

Loudness recruitment is also a special audiological procedure or test.


lamina elastica anterior (medicine)


lamina elastica anterior -->
anterior limiting layer of cornea


A transparent homogeneous acellular layer, 6 to 9 um thick, lying between the basal lamina of the outer layer of stratified epithelium and the substantia propria of the cornea; considered to be a basement membrane.

Synonym: lamina limitans anterior corneae, anterior elastic layer, Bowman's membrane, lamina elastica anterior, limiting layers of cornea.