deafness : Idioms & Phrases
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conduction deafness
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noun hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear
conductive hearing loss; conduction deafness.
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middle-ear deafness
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noun hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear
conductive hearing loss; conduction deafness.
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nerve deafness
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noun hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve
sensorineural hearing loss.
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Nervous deafness
- a variety of deafness dependent upon morbid change in some portion of the nervous system, especially the auditory nerve.
Webster 1913
Psychical blindness , Psychical deafness
(Med.) , forms of nervous disease in which, while the senses of sight and hearing remain unimpaired, the mind fails to appreciate the significance of the sounds heard or the images seen.
Webster 1913
tone deafness
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noun an inability to distinguish differences in pitch
tin ear.
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Word deafness
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noun an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss
auditory aphasia; acoustic aphasia.
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(Physiol.) , inability to understand spoken words, though the person affected may hear them and other sounds, and hence is not deaf.