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deafness

[ UK /dˈɛfnəs/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛfnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. partial or complete loss of hearing

How To Use deafness In A Sentence

  • But the type of deafness I have inherited is associated at first with excessive along with diminished hearing, hypo - and hyperacusis combined. Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 3
  • In old age she was troubled by deafness and played little active part in her husband's later political career.
  • It is a genetic kidney disease which usually affects young men and can cause kidney failure and deafness. The Sun
  • The couple believe that deafness is a cultural identity as well as a physical reality. Boing Boing: April 7, 2002 - April 13, 2002 Archives
  • Complications of mumps include meningitis, encephalitis and deafness.
  • We have isolated a new gene for hereditary deafness.
  • The symptoms produced by exostoses are a prolonged blocked feeling of the ears after water activities with deafness and recurrent otitis externa.
  • It takes a huge amount of blustering and a large measure of deafness to defend the sales of British gold.
  • The leaves of bael are astringent, a laxative, a febrifuge and an expectorant and are useful in ophthalmia, deafness, inflammations, catarrh, diabetes and asthmatic complaints.
  • We excused it as deafness and persuaded him to buy an expensive hearing aid (which he then refused to wear). Times, Sunday Times
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