HEARING LOSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hearing loss mean? 

• HEARING LOSS (noun)
  The noun HEARING LOSS has 1 sense:

1. partial or complete loss of hearing

  Familiarity information: HEARING LOSS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARING LOSS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Partial or complete loss of hearing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

deafness; hearing loss

Hypernyms ("hearing loss" is a kind of...):

hearing disorder; hearing impairment (impairment of the sense of hearing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hearing loss"):

tin ear; tone deafness (an inability to distinguish differences in pitch)

deaf-muteness; deaf-mutism (congenital deafness that results in inability to speak)

 Context examples 

Treatment or surgery can often reverse this kind of hearing loss.

(Hearing Disorders and Deafness, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

If your child has a hearing loss, it is important to consider the use of hearing devices and other communication options by age 6 months.

(Hearing Problems in Children, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

Hearing loss in frequencies above 1000 hertz.

(High Frequency Hearing Loss, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An auditory test utilizing the electrical activity of neural impulses to localize the exact site of a pathologic process that causes the hearing loss.

(Evoked Response Audiometry, NCI Thesaurus)

Bilateral lesions of the auditory pathways are usually required to cause central hearing loss.

(Central Hearing Loss, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Hearing loss caused by a problem in the outer ear or middle ear.

(Conductive Hearing Loss, NCI Thesaurus)

Inflammation of the ear, which may be marked by pain, fever, abnormalities of hearing, hearing loss, tinnitus, and vertigo.

(Ear Infection, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It nearly always affects males and is characterized by the accumulation of mucopolysaccharides in various organs, resulting in mental dysfunction, enlarged abdomen, hearing loss, obstructive airway disease, heart disease, and hepatosplenomegaly.

(Hunter Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

It is a common cause of hearing loss.

(Meniere's Disease, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

Representative examples include infection and sensory hearing loss.

(Non-Neoplastic Inner Ear Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)