La audiometría detecta la hipoacusia.

In Spanish, it is very common to use the definite article with nouns where English often does not.

• La audiometría = audiometry / the audiometry test as a general procedure
• La hipoacusia = hearing loss as a medical condition

So Spanish often says:

• La medicina avanza mucho. = Medicine is advancing a lot.
• La diabetes puede ser peligrosa. = Diabetes can be dangerous.

In this sentence, the articles make the statement sound natural and general: audiometry detects hearing loss.

Detecta is the third-person singular present tense form of the verb detectar.

The subject is la audiometría, which is singular, so the verb must also be singular:

• detectar = to detect
• detecta = detects

So the structure is:

• La audiometría = subject
• detecta = verb
• la hipoacusia = direct object

This is the same pattern as:

• El análisis confirma el diagnóstico.
• La prueba muestra el problema.

Yes, audiometría is feminine, so it takes la.

Many nouns ending in -a are feminine, and that is true here:

• la audiometría
• la biología
• la cirugía

Also, many nouns ending in -ía are feminine:

• la anatomía
• la terapia
• la radiografía

So la audiometría is the normal form.

Hipoacusia is a feminine noun, so it takes la: la hipoacusia.

This follows the common pattern of many medical or abstract nouns ending in -a being feminine. Even if you do not know the word yet, -a is often a good clue that the noun is feminine.

So:

• la hipoacusia
• la anemia
• la migraña

As always, gender is something you learn with the noun itself, so it is best to memorise it as la hipoacusia, not just hipoacusia.

In this kind of sentence, audiometría usually refers to audiometry as a hearing test or assessment method.

Depending on context, it can mean:

• the process of measuring hearing
• the hearing test itself
• the clinical method used to assess hearing

In a medical statement like this, it means that audiometry is a method that can detect hearing loss.

So although the exact English wording may vary by context, the grammar stays the same.

The accent mark shows where the stress falls: au-dio-me-TRÍ-a.

Without the accent, Spanish stress rules would make you expect a different pronunciation. The written accent tells you that the stressed syllable is trí.

This is common in words ending in -ía:

• biología
• cirugía
• anatomía

For an English speaker, it may help to think of it as something like ow-dyo-me-TREE-a, although Spanish vowels are purer and shorter than English ones.

The h in Spanish is silent, so hipoacusia is pronounced roughly like:

ee-po-au-KOO-sya

A few useful points:

• h = silent
• hi sounds like ee
• poa runs together smoothly
• sia at the end is usually pronounced like sya in standard Peninsular Spanish

The stress falls on cu: hi-po-a-CU-sia.

It would sound unnatural in normal Spanish.

Spanish generally prefers the articles here, especially in formal, scientific, or medical statements:

• La audiometría detecta la hipoacusia.

Without the articles, it sounds more like note-taking, headlines, or very telegraphic style, not standard full-sentence Spanish.

So for ordinary correct Spanish, keep both la forms.

It is in the present tense: detecta = detects.

But in scientific or medical statements, the Spanish present often expresses a general fact, so in English it may sometimes feel like:

• Audiometry detects hearing loss
• Audiometry can detect hearing loss

The Spanish sentence itself does not explicitly say can. If you wanted to be more explicit, you could say:

• La audiometría puede detectar la hipoacusia. = Audiometry can detect hearing loss.

So the original sentence states the fact directly and generally.

The word order is the standard Spanish pattern:

Subject + Verb + Object

• La audiometría = subject
• detecta = verb
• la hipoacusia = direct object

This is very similar to English word order:

• Audiometry detects hearing loss.

Because the sentence is simple and formal, there is nothing unusual about the structure.

It is formal / technical / medical Spanish.

The words audiometría and especially hipoacusia are not the most everyday vocabulary for casual conversation. In a medical context, though, they are normal and precise.

A less technical everyday idea might use phrases related to hearing problems instead, but in healthcare or academic language, this sentence sounds completely natural and appropriate.