sensorineural hearing loss

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   hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve

   Synonymsnerve deafness

   Broaderhearing impairment

Questions about sensorineural hearing loss

What does sensorineural hearing loss mean?

sensorineural hearing loss means "hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve".

What is another word for sensorineural hearing loss?

Close synonyms include nerve 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 sensorineural hearing loss a common word?

sensorineural hearing loss 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.