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Definition: Hearing Loss |
Hearing LossNoun1. Impairment of the sense of hearing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Medicine | A measure of an individual's hearing deficiency as compared with the so-called normal ear. Source: European Union. (references) |
| For a given ear and for a specified signal, the number of decibels by which the threshold of hearing for that ear differs from the normal threshold of hearing as given in ISO 389. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The increase of individuals'hearing level above the specified standard of normal hearing when this can be ascribed to a specific cause such as advancing age, conductive deafness, perceptive defects or noise exposure. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Public Administration | The symptom or condition of impaired hearing, particularly impairment of the sensitivity of hearing (Table of contents) "Hearing loss caused different exposures to amplified pop music". U. S. Environmental Agency Legal Compilation Statutes + Legislative History Supp. 1, Vol. 5, Noise p. 2557 (Vomil). Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: Hearing LossSynonym: hearing impairment (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Hearing Loss |
| English words defined with "hearing loss": acoustic, acoustic aphasia, auditory aphasia ♦ conduction deafness, conductive hearing loss ♦ deafening ♦ earsplitting ♦ hard-of-hearing, hearing-impaired ♦ Meniere's disease, middle-ear deafness ♦ nerve deafness ♦ Ramsay Hunt syndrome, roaring ♦ sensorineural hearing loss ♦ thunderous, thundery ♦ word deafness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hearing loss": acoustic trauma, auditory trauma ♦ battle noise ♦ Deafness, Sudden ♦ hearing injury, Hearing Loss, Bilateral, Hearing Loss, Central, Hearing Loss, Conductive, Hearing Loss, Functional, Hearing Loss, High-Frequency, Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced, Hearing Loss, Partial, Hearing Loss, Sensorineural ♦ noise induced hearing loss ♦ periodic hearing test, phonotrauma ♦ regular audiometric examination, Retrocochlear, retrocochlear hearing loss ♦ sensori-neural hearing loss ♦ Vestibulocochlear Nerve Diseases. (references) |
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Health | Noise-induced hearing loss is preventable. (references) | |
It also results in hearing loss and tinnitus. (references) | ||
Paralysis, blindness, or hearing loss may also occur. (references) | ||
Children | Costa Rica | In 1999 the PANI and the Ministry of Education published specific classroom guidelines for assisting children with hearing loss, motor difficulties, attention deficit disorder, and mental retardation. (references) |
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Expressions using "hearing loss": central hearing loss ♦ conductive hearing loss ♦ functional hearing loss ♦ functional psychogenic hearing loss ♦ noise induced hearing loss ♦ percentage of hearing loss ♦ retrocochlear hearing loss ♦ sensorineural hearing loss. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "hearing loss"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | hoeretab (deafness, loss of hearing), høretab. (various references) | |
Dutch | gehoorverlies (hearing impairment, loss of hearing, noise induced hearing loss), doofheid (deafness). (various references) | |
Finnish | kuulovika, kuulonheikkenemä, kuulonalenema. (various references) | |
French | hypoacousie, trouble de l'audition, surdite, surdité, perte de l'ouie, perte de l'audition (loss of hearing), perte d'audition, perte auditive, lésion de l'appareil auditif, désordre auditif, déficit audiométrique (noise induced hearing loss), affaiblissement de l'ouïe. (various references) | |
German | Hoerverlust, Hörverlust (loss of hearing), Taubheit (deadness, deafness, numbness), Schwerhoerigkeit (deafness), Gehörverlust, Gehörschwächung. (various references) | |
Greek | κώφωση (deafness), κωφότητα (deafness), εξασθένιση ακοής, απώλεια ακοής (loss of hearing), απώλεια της ακοής (deafness). (various references) | |
Italian | sordita (deafness), perdita uditiva, perdita dell'udito (deafness, loss of hearing), ipoacusia (hypoacusis), indebolimento dell'udito, difetto dell'udito (deafness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | earinghay osslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | surdez (deafness, hypoacusis, surdity), enfraquecimento da audição, diminuição auditiva. (various references) | |
Spanish | hipoacusia (threshold shift), sordera (deafness), pérdida de capacidad auditiva, pérdida de audición. (various references) | |
Swedish | hörselnedsättning, hörselförlust. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-n-o-r-s-s" | |
-1 letter: ringhalses, shearlings. | |
-2 letters: ashlering, garnishes, gasoliers, gasolines, geraniols, girasoles, hoariness, longhairs, narghiles, nargilehs, organises, regionals, sensorial, seraglios, shealings, shearings, shearling, shinglers, signalers. | |
-3 letters: agonises, ailerons, airholes, alienors, aligners, anisoles, argosies, assigner, assignor, engrails, erasions, gainless, galoshes, gasolier, gasoline, geraniol, girasole, girasols, glassier, glassine, glossier, glossina, goriness, hairless, halogens, hassling, healings, hearings, hearsing, hoarsens. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-h-i-l-n-o-r-s-s" | |
+3 letters: clearinghouses. | |
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