deafness

/ dĕf′nĭs /

The lack or severe impairment of the ability to hear. Deafness is usually genetic or congenital as a result of prenatal viral infection, birth trauma, or other causes. Acquired deafness is caused mostly by drug toxicity, trauma, and certain diseases. Cochlear implants are used to treat some forms of deafness.

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Example Sentences

When asked, the townspeople with hearing did not consider deafness a disability at all.

Thousands of other children suffered seizures, permanent brain damage or deafness.

For me, deafness opened up new worlds, rather than the other way around.

Where deafness and infertility and all manner of other impairments are far more common.

Her deafness was always a source of pride, but here she is forced to see how deaf individuals can be robbed of their own agency.

From that region they issue to inflict diseases, especially blindness and deafness.

At Oxford Circus they got out, and left me pondering on deafness and dumbness.

A curious fact relating to the white cat of not only the long but also the short-haired breed is their deafness.

One disease followed another, ending with scarlet fever and deafness.

The attribute wise excludes folly and ignorance; hearing and seeing remove deafness and blindness.

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