AUDITION

n._ A‘d-i%sh’n8n. Gr., dxoy. Lat., audit us, auditio (from audire, to hear), Fr., audition, ouïe. Ger., Gehôr. It., udito. Sp., audicién. The act, sense, or function of peering [F.]—A. active (Fr.). The hearing which takes place when one listens. [L, 109.] See AUSCULTATION —A. colorée (Fr.). See Color NEARING.—A. pa ive (Fr.). The hearing of sounds which strike the ear without any effort being made to catch them. [L, 109. —Contre-a. (Fr.). Ger., Hinäberhôren. The hearing with one ear Al the vibrations of a tuning-fork placed ou the mastoid proce of the opposite side; most marked with vibrations of more than a you sand to the second. Baumgarten first pple redl this test in the diagnosis and prognosis of disease of the middle ear and the internal ear. [* Ann. des mal. de Yoreille,” etc., March, 1887, p. 93 (F).| Mental a. Fr.,a. mentale, The remembrance of a sound, or the formation of an idea or a mental image founded on past auditory impre ions, [A, 300.]—Verbal mental a. Fr., a, mentale verbale, parole intérieure. The same as mental a., the sounds remembered being those of words. [A, 390.]