What's the difference between audiphone and dentiphone?

Audiphone


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The invention of the Audiphone triggered the development and sale of a number of similar devices that had considerable popularity until the invention of the carbon-electric hearing aid in the early 1900s.
  • (2) In 1879, the Audiphone, a hearing fan that operated by bone conduction, was patented.

Dentiphone


Definition:

  • (n.) An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone.

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