Disease or Syndrome
sensorineural hearing loss
Subclass of:
hearing impairment
Definitions related to sensorineural hearing loss (disorder):
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(sensorineural hearing loss) Due to lesions of the cochlea and the auditory division of the eighth cranial nerve; problem of cellular dysfunction rather than airborne conduction.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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(sensorineural hearing loss) Permanent hearing loss caused by damage to the cochlea, hair cells, or auditory nerve.Harvard Dictionary of Health TermsHarvard Medical Publishing, 2011
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(hearing loss, sensorineural) Hearing loss resulting from damage to the COCHLEA and the sensorineural elements which lie internally beyond the oval and round windows. These elements include the AUDITORY NERVE and its connections in the BRAINSTEM.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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(sensorineural hearing impairment) A type of hearing impairment in one or both ears related to an abnormal functionality of the cochlear nerve.Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)The Human Phenotype Ontology Project, 2021
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