auditory : Idioms & Phrases

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auditory agnosia

  • noun inability to recognize or understand the meaning of spoken words
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auditory aphasia

  • noun an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss
    word deafness; acoustic aphasia.
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auditory apparatus

  • noun all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears
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auditory area

  • noun the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body
    auditory area.
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Auditory canal

  • noun either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane
    auditory meatus; ear canal; acoustic meatus; auditory canal.
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  • (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.
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auditory center

  • noun the part of the brain (in a fold of the cerebral cortex of the temporal lobe on both sides of the brain) that receives impulses from the ear by way of the auditory nerve
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auditory communication

  • noun communication that relies on hearing
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auditory cortex

  • noun the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body
    auditory area.
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auditory hallucination

  • noun illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds
    acousma.
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auditory hyperesthesia

  • noun abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels
    hyperacusis; hyperacusia.
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auditory image

  • noun a mental image that is similar to an auditory perception
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auditory meatus

  • noun either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane
    auditory meatus; ear canal; acoustic meatus; auditory canal.
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auditory modality

  • noun the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
    audition; sense of hearing; auditory modality; hearing.
    • his hearing was impaired
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auditory nerve

  • noun a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea
    nervus vestibulocochlearis; vestibulocochlear nerve; acoustic nerve; eighth cranial nerve.
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auditory ossicle

  • noun ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear
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auditory perception

  • noun the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon
    sound perception.
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auditory sensation

  • noun the subjective sensation of hearing something
    sound.
    • he strained to hear the faint sounds
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auditory sense

  • noun the ability to hear; the auditory faculty
    audition; sense of hearing; auditory modality; hearing.
    • his hearing was impaired
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auditory system

  • noun the sensory system for hearing
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auditory tube

  • noun either of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx; equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum
    Eustachian tube.
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external auditory canal

  • noun either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane
    auditory meatus; ear canal; acoustic meatus; auditory canal.
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internal auditory artery

  • noun an artery that is a branch of the basilar artery that supplies the labyrinth
    artery of the labyrinth; labyrinthine artery.
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internal auditory vein

  • noun veins that drain the inner ear
    labyrinthine vein.
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