Rinne
/ˈrɪnə/(also Rinné) Medicine
noun
Attributive and in the genitive. Designating (the result of) a hearing test in which a vibrating tuning fork is placed with its handle on a bone of the skull until its sound can no longer be heard, and then is moved close to the ear, when the sound is normally heard again.
- The Rinne test differentiates between bone conduction and air conduction of sound..
Origin
Late 19th century. From the name of Heinrich Adolf Rinne, German otologist, who described a form of the test in 1855. With Rinne's experiment, Rinne's test, etc., compare German Rinne'scher Versuch.