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SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sensorineural hearing loss mean?
• SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS (noun)
The noun SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS has 1 sense:
1. hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve
Familiarity information: SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
nerve deafness; sensorineural hearing loss
Hypernyms ("sensorineural hearing loss" is a kind of...):
hearing disorder; hearing impairment (impairment of the sense of hearing)
Context examples
Hearing loss characterized by a combination of conductive and sensorineural hearing loss.
(Mixed Conductive and Sensorineural Hearing Loss, NCI Thesaurus)
Sensorineural hearing loss in which a person loses the ability to hear sounds in low frequency.
(Low Frequency Hearing Loss, NCI Thesaurus)
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