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deafness, hearing loss
partial or complete loss of hearing
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conduction deafness, conductive hearing loss, middle-ear deafness
hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear
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auditory hyperesthesia, hyperacusia, hyperacusis
abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels
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nerve deafness, sensorineural hearing loss
hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve
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tin ear, tone deafness
an inability to distinguish differences in pitch
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deaf-muteness, deaf-mutism
congenital deafness that results in inability to speak
