Heinrich Adolf Rinne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German physician
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Place of Birth: Vlotho, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Heinrich Adolf Rinne
- Heinrich Adolf Rinne (January 24, 1819 – July 26, 1868) was a German otologist born in Vlotho an der Weser.
- He received his doctorate from the University of Göttingen and practiced medicine in the city of Göttingen.
- Later he was a physician in Sandstadt near Stade (1857) and Hildesheim (1860). In 1855 Rinne described the combined conductive process of the tympanic membrane and the ossicles of the middle ear.
- He is known for the eponymous Rinne test.
- The Rinne test is a hearing test conducted with a tuning fork, and is used to test and compare a patients' hearing via air conduction (normal process) or by way of bone conduction (sound to the inner ear through the mastoid).
- He reasoned that if a person hears a sound for a longer period of time through bone conduction than through air conduction, a disease is present somewhere in the conduction apparatus. Despite his research, "Rinne's test" wasn't generally recognized until after his death — in the early 1880s, otologists Friedrich Bezold (1842-1908) and August Lucae (1835–1911) further publicized Rinne's work.
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