SENSORINEURAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensorineural mean? 

• SENSORINEURAL (adjective)
  The adjective SENSORINEURAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the neural process of sensation

  Familiarity information: SENSORINEURAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSORINEURAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the neural process of sensation

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

neural (of or relating to neurons)

 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)

Mutation of the gene is associated with May-Hegglin anomaly, non-syndromic sensorineural deafness autosomal dominant type 17, Epstein syndrome, Sebastian syndrome, Fechtner syndrome and macrothrombocytopenia with progressive sensorineural deafness and non-diabetic end stage renal disease.

(MYH9 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation of the gene is associated with hypoparathyroidism with sensorineural deafness and renal dysplasia (Barakat syndrome).

(GATA3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)