A working explanation for each abbreviation should be given by your audiologist, because many of the abbreviations involve complex concepts. A list of all the abbreviations used in audi - ology would be very lengthy, but a simple classifying of basic hearing test areas where technical abbreviations are typically used may help patients.
Coroner's Report: Guillotine. The guillotine, the notorious killing machine of the French Revolution, was used to behead thousands, including King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette. Why was it a humane form of execution for its time, and did victims' brains continue functioning after decapitation?
This concept perhaps first appeared during the French Revolution, the very time period in which the guillotine was created. On July 17, 1793, a woman named Charlotte Corday was executed by guillotine for the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat, a radical journalist, politician and revolutionary.