DEAFNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deafness mean? 

• DEAFNESS (noun)
  The noun DEAFNESS has 1 sense:

1. partial or complete loss of hearing

  Familiarity information: DEAFNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEAFNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Partial or complete loss of hearing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

deafness; hearing loss

Hypernyms ("deafness" is a kind of...):

hearing disorder; hearing impairment (impairment of the sense of hearing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deafness"):

tin ear; tone deafness (an inability to distinguish differences in pitch)

deaf-muteness; deaf-mutism (congenital deafness that results in inability to speak)

Derivation:

deaf (lacking or deprived of the sense of hearing wholly or in part)

 Context examples 

Mutation of the gene is associated with hypoparathyroidism with sensorineural deafness and renal dysplasia (Barakat syndrome).

(GATA3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Deafness can keep you from hearing sound at all.

(Hearing Disorders and Deafness, NIH: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)

Some ear disorders can result in hearing disorders and deafness.

(Ear Disorders, NIH)

Signs and symptoms include dementia, cortical deafness and blindness, pseudobulbar palsy, and hemiplegia.

(Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation of the gene is associated with deafness autosomal dominant type 64.

(DIABLO wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Signs and symptoms include irritability, mental and motor developmental disturbances, muscle weakness, seizures, blindness, and deafness.

(Krabbe Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the following abnormalities: multiple lentigines, electrocardiographic conduction abnormalities, ocular hypertelorism, pulmonary stenosis, abnormalities in genitalia, growth retardation, and deafness.

(LEOPARD Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by short stature, webbed neck, hypertelorism, low-set ears, deafness, and thrombocytopenia or abnormal platelet function.

(Noonan syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutation of the gene is associated with May-Hegglin anomaly, non-syndromic sensorineural deafness autosomal dominant type 17, Epstein syndrome, Sebastian syndrome, Fechtner syndrome and macrothrombocytopenia with progressive sensorineural deafness and non-diabetic end stage renal disease.

(MYH9 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

An autosomal dominant form without deafness is called the ROMANO-WARD SYNDROME.

(Long QT Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)