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Definition of Nerve deafness
1. Noun. Hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve.
Medical Definition of Nerve deafness
1. Neural deafness, former terms for sensorineural deafness. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nerve Deafness
Literary usage of Nerve deafness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic and functional nervous diseases: A Text-book of Neurology by Moses Allen Starr (1913)
"In auditory nerve deafness the higher pitched sounds are less distinctly heard
... In auditory nerve deafness hearing is not increased in a noise as it is ..."
2. A Manual of Personal Hygiene: Proper Living Upon a Physiologic Basis by Walter Lytle Pyle (1917)
"The term " nerve-deafness " was once a cloak for ignorance as to conditions
readily shown to be of a different nature; but this trouble is now receiving due ..."
3. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"If the nerve is at fault, the condition is called nervous or nerve deafness.
When there are no basilar symptoms, involvement of other cranial nerves, ..."
4. Diseases of the throat, nose and ear by Daniel McKenzie (1921)
"CHAPTER XIV nerve deafness AND LABYRINTH DISEASE We have already dealt with the
subject of suppurative labyrinthitis (see p. 522), and have alluded, ..."
5. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the ear: Including the Anatomy of by Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa (1881)
"Other symptoms of nerve-deafness, such as vertigo, nausea, vomiting, tinnitus
aurium, are also seen in affections of the middle ear, although very few cases ..."
6. The Clinical Journal (1895)
"For instance, I had the case of a lady with typical nerve-deafness in one ear.
... Then you may have nerve-deafness with implication of other cranial nerves ..."
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