Deafness - a range of causes
The ear is our organ of hearing. At around 20 years of age, our hearing starts a gradual decline. Higher frequencies are usually the first to go.
Deafness: Deafness is defined by partial or complete hearing loss. Levels of hearing impairment vary from a mild but important loss of sensitivity to a total loss of hearing. Older adults suffer most often from hearing loss.
deafness ( ′defnəs ) ( medicine ) Temporary or permanent impairment or loss of hearing. ... For most of us, the term deafness' conjures up a frightening image. ...
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deafness
Type: Term
Pronunciation: def′nes
Definitions:
1. General term for inability to hear.
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Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institute on (NIDCD): One of the US National Institutes of Health.
Deafness
A general term for the complete or partial loss of the ability to hear from one or both ears. Deafness may result from EAR DISEASES; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE DISEASES; or BRAIN DISEASES.
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What is deafness-dystonia-optic neuronopathy syndrome?
Deafness-dystonia-optic neuronopathy (DDON) syndrome, also known as Mohr-Tranebjærg syndrome, is characterized by hearing loss that begins early in life, problems with movement, ...
Deafness
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partial or total lack of hearing. It may be present at birth (congenital) or may be acquired at any age thereafter.
Ataxia-deafness syndrome
Overview
A rare syndrome characterized by the association of ataxia with deafness.
Deafness can be mild, moderate, severe or profound. People with mild deafness have some difficulty following speech, mainly in noisy situations. Those with moderate deafness have difficulty following speech without a hearing aid.
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Glossary
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Sudden deafness is severe sensorineural hearing loss that develops within a few hours or is noticed on awakening. It affects about 1/5000 people each year.
Sensorineural deafness Treatment
Review Date: 06/12/2009
Reviewed By: Luc Jasmin, MD, PhD, Department of Neurosurgery and Gene Therapeutics Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Sensorineural deafness is decreased hearing or hearing loss that occurs from damage to the inner ear, the nerve that runs from the ear to the brain (auditory nerve), or the brain.
For more information, see the article on hearing loss.
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Keratitis ichthyosis deafness (KID) syndrome is a rare, genetic, multi-system disorder.
Hearing, Ear Infections, and Deafness
Diseases and Conditions
Auditory Neuropathy
Auditory Processing Disorder
Ear Infections in Children
Enlarged Vestibular Aqueducts (EVA)
Hearing Loss/Deafness, Sudden
Hearing Loss in Adults Over 60 ...
Hearing impairment, or deafness, is when your hearing is affected by a disease, disorder or injury.
The structure of the ear
The ear consists of three parts: ...
deafness
defns noun the fact of being unable to hear in circumstances where most people would partial deafness ...
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Deafness, congenital
Loss of hearing present at birth. Congenital deafness contrasts to acquired deafness which occurs after birth.
sudden deafness - loss of hearing that occurs quickly from such causes as explosion, a viral infection, or the use of some drugs.
Deafness means a lack or loss of the sense of hearing, which may be partial or complete. Partial loss of hearing is often called hearing loss rather than deafness. Deafness can occur in one or both ears.
There are three primary types of hearing loss: ...
Deafness-Myopia-Cataract-Saddle Nose, Marshall Type
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Marshall syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder caused by mutations in the COL11A1 gene.
Deafness or hearing impairment affects not only a child who is deaf or has a hearing loss, but also the child's family, friends, and teachers.
Deafness also occurs in multiple sclerosis, occasionally at presentation.
Feelings of unsteadiness are common; and acute brainstem demyelination causes severe positional vertigo, vomiting, ataxia and headache.
Deafness
Fusing of Middle Ear Bones
Hearing Loss
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Deafness, Onycho-osteodystrophy, Mental Retardation [syndrome]
OMG
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Deafness or hearing impairment can interfere with the child's ability to learn to speak. Stuttering is a condition without a known cause that often goes away on its own.
Deafness is a complication. Deafness-related complications include social isolation and the inability to hear fire alarms.
Calling your health care provider
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if hearing loss occurs or worsens.
Deafness due to abnormal ears
Eye or eyelid problems
Kidney(s) that did not form correctly
Problems with the arms and hands, such as: ...
Deafness
Permanent blindness
Type 2 diabetes
Kidney and liver failure may get worse.
Deafness (may not be permanent)
Swelling or infection of the brain, pancreas, heart, or other organs
Testicular inflammation (may occur in up to 20% of adolescent boys and men)
Problems with male fertility (sterility is rare) ...
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Each year about 20,000 children in the United States are born with permanent hearing loss. Often this isn't discovered...
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deafness by late adulthood
retinitis pigmentosa begins around puberty
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Deafness or hearing loss is observed in about 25% of the cases of multiple lentigenes syndrome. Some people affected with the syndrome also exhibit mild developmental delay.
Deafness is unusual but has been reported.
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Deafness, impaired vision, and notched, peg-shaped teeth. Symptoms in children with hereditary Syphilis. [Cartwright]
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Deafness -- pili torti -hypogonadism ... sparse scalp hair, fragile hair
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Dermo-odontodysplasia ... absent scalp hair, sparse scalp hair ...
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Long-term seizures, coma, or lowered consciousness
Permanent brain damage ...
The deafness is typically congenital (present at birth), bilateral, profound sensorineural (nerve) deafness. The severity of Waardenburg syndrome (WS) varies and about 40 percent of affected persons escape the deafness.
Nerve deafness; Hearing loss - sensorineural; Acquired hearing loss; SNHL; Noise-induced hearing loss; NIHL
Considerations
Symptoms may include: ...
Alport deafness-nephropathy
Summary
Alport syndrome (AS) is an inherited disease characterised by glomerular nephropathy with hematuria, progressing to end-stage renal disease, associated with sensorineural deafness.
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In men, deafness, visual difficulties, and kidney failure are likely by age 50.
Complications:
Chronic renal failure
Decrease or loss of vision
End-stage renal disease
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deafness
a high temperature
a general feeling of being unwell, including feeling sick and loss of appetite
blood and pus coming out of the ear (if the eardrum bursts) ...
Catarrhal deafness could be the problem. This starts when an acute infection (such as a cold or the flu) is suppressed and not allowed to run its course and be properly eliminated.
Conduction deafness and cleft palate with broad nasal root and frontal bossing, wide spacing of toes, broad thumbs and great toes, and often other signs of generalised bone dysplasia; X-linked recessive inheritance.
Conductive deafness occurs when sound waves are not properly conducted through the external and middle portions of the ear to set the fluid in the inner ear in motion.
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Vision loss
Deafness
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Although the risk for complications is low, advanced age, chronic medical conditions, previous surgeries, or previous radiation at or near the target site may increase the risk for complications.
Congenital deafness
Caused by one of two changes in a gene called Connexin 26. About one in 21 individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish descent has one of the two mutations.
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Most cases of deafness are caused by the dysfunction or death of cells in the cochlea, the snail-shell-shaped structure in the inner ear.
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deafness (particularly in one ear only)
a lump in the neck (a sign of spread of the cancer to the glands in the neck).
Other less common symptoms are: ...
# Cleft palate # Deafness # Eye abnormality # Iris defect # Reduced vision # Abnormal fusion of the two main forearm bones # Protruding ears # Short stature # Coloboma # Cleft palate # Deafness # Eye abnormality # Iris defect # Reduced vision # ...
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Word deafness, a term often used as synonymous with auditory aphasia, is misleading and should be abandoned.
Deafness
Deafness with goiter see Pendred syndrome
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Dementia, Hereditary Multi-infarct Type see CADASIL
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