A client has expressed great relief at the improvement in their hearing after irrigation of the ear canal yielded a large amount of impacted cerumen. This client was experiencing a sensory alteration related to:.

The correct answer to fill in the blank is: sensory reception.

Explanation:

Sensory receptors are used to receive stimuli that help us react to changes in the environment, both internal and external.

There are five types of sensory receptors: thermoreceptors (react to changes in temperature), mechanoreceptors (detect physical deformation), chemoreceptors (detect changes in metabolic concentrations, pH, smell and taste), nociceptors (respond to pain), and photoreceptors (respond to visual stimulus and are located in the retina).

Hearing Deficits (Presbycusis)

Explanation:

Presbycusis is a hearing disorder common among old people. It happens as a result of cerumen accumulation. Cerumen accumulation is the building up of earwax,this earwax accumulation in the external auditory canal, makes the cerumen hard causes conductive deafness.

a1 = unhealthy

a2= healthy

a3= healthy