conduction deafness

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   hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear

   Synonymsconductive hearing lossmiddle-ear deafness

   Broaderhearing impairment

Questions about conduction deafness

What does conduction deafness mean?

conduction deafness means "hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear".

What is another word for conduction deafness?

Close synonyms include conductive hearing loss, middle-ear deafness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conduction deafness a common word?

conduction deafness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.