Medical Dictionary

nerve deafness

noun

Medical Definition of NERVE DEAFNESS

:  hearing loss or impairment resulting from injury to or loss of function of the organ of Corti or the auditory nerve—called also perceptive deafness; compare central deafness, conduction deafness

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