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SENSORINEURAL DEAFNESS

Specialty Definition: SENSORINEURAL DEAFNESS

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Environment

The two major types of deafness are conductive deafness and sensorineural (nerve) deafness. . . . In --. . . damage to the nerve endings of the inner ear. . . causes either interruption or confusion of the sound mes sages. Source: European Union. (references)

Medicine

Deafness due to a lesion in the sensory mechanism(cochlea)of the ear or to a lesion in the acoustic nerve or the central neural pathways or to a combination of such lesions. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SENSORINEURAL DEAFNESS

Specialty definitions using "SENSORINEURAL DEAFNESS": Cochlear Implantation, Cochlear Implants. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SENSORINEURAL DEAFNESS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

sensorineural deafness

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SENSORINEURAL DEAFNESS

Language Translations for "SENSORINEURAL DEAFNESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

perceptuel doevhed (nerve deafness, perceptive deafness), perceptionsdoevhed (nerve deafness, perceptive deafness). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

perceptiedoofheid (nerve deafness, perceptive deafness). (various references)

   

French

  

surdité rétrocochléaire, surdité nerveuse, surdité de perception (sensorineural hearing loss, sensori-neural hearing loss). (various references)

   

German

  

Wahrnehmungstaubheit (nerve deafness, perceptive deafness). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sordita percettiva (nerve deafness, perceptive deafness), sordita neuro-sensoriale (nerve deafness, perceptive deafness), sordita di recezione (nerve deafness, perceptive deafness), sordita di percezione (nerve deafness, perceptive deafness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ensorineuralsay eafnessday

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Bibliography


  

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