CONDUCTIVE HEARING LOSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conductive hearing loss mean? 

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

1. hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDUCTIVE HEARING LOSS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

conduction deafness; conductive hearing loss; middle-ear deafness

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

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

 Context examples 

It usually presents with conductive hearing loss.

(Middle Ear Adenoma, NCI Thesaurus)