Disease or Syndrome
conductive hearing loss
Subclass of:
hearing impairment
Definitions related to conductive hearing loss:
  • Hearing loss caused by a blockage in the middle ear that prevents sound waves from reaching the inner ear.
    Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
    Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
  • Hearing loss caused by impaired transmission of signals from the external auditory canal or middle ear to the cochlea.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Involves lesions of the external and middle ear resulting in malconduction of airborne sound.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • (hearing loss, conductive) Hearing loss due to interference with the mechanical reception or amplification of sound to the COCHLEA. The interference is in the outer or middle ear involving the EAR CANAL; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; or EAR OSSICLES.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (conductive hearing impairment) An abnormality of vibrational conductance of sound to the inner ear leading to impairment of sensory perception of sound.
    Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)
    The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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