(a.) Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.
(a.) Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with to; as, deaf to reason.
(a.) Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.
(a.) Obscurely heard; stifled; deadened.
(a.) Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.
(v. t.) To deafen.
Example Sentences:
(1) 23 years old woman with sudden deafness and ipsilateral lack of rapid phase caloric nystagmus was described.
(2) About one out of three profoundly deaf children has an autosomal recessive form of inherited deafness.
(3) The present study examines kinematic details of the laryngeal articulatory gesture in 2 deaf speakers and a control subject using transillumination of the larynx.
(4) There is no reason to describe deafness and deafmutism in an area with severe endemic goitre as a separate entity.
(5) The next implanted device will have: a. constant current; b. programming of a particular current value for each electrode; and c. stimulation of the cochlear nerve through an extra cochlear electrode bearer, allowing deep implantation without deafness.
(6) Bangkok Centre serves the Asian countries on the Global Programme on Prevention of Hearing Impairment and Deafness.
(7) We performed light and electron microscopic studies on the temporal bones of a patient with genetic aplastic deafness, in which the right ear had a Mondini-type defect and the left ear a Michel-type anomaly.
(8) Prenatal causes of sensorineural hearing loss in children may be genetic or nongenetic, the deafness occurs alone or with other abnormalities.
(9) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.
(10) Progressive unilateral sensorineural deafness and tinnitus developed in a 59-year-old woman over a 1-year period.
(11) Older hearing controls (14-16 years) matched the deaf group in span and tended to recall most accurately written syllables which are not easily lipread.
(12) Results from 12 diagnostic subtests obtained by Van Uden's sample of profoundly deaf children and a Manchester sample with wider ranges of age and hearing loss were analysed by the Q-technique of factor analysis.
(13) This group is analysed and it is suggested that some may be diagnosed as suffering from central deafness.
(14) Two patients, presenting with signs and symptoms of cerebellar dysfunction, later developed evidence of brain-stem disease with dysarthria, nystagmus, deafness, and internuclear ophthalmoplegia.
(15) On the other hand, if past experience is anything to go by, this government isn’t shy of a U-turn ; and, if Whittingdale and his advisers aren’t completely deaf, they may at least detect that he would do well to keep the relish out of his voice as he announces the steps he intends to take.
(16) Vestibular destruction was associated with deafness in only 3 of the patients.
(17) Chronic serous otitis media was a frequent finding but deafness was rarely profound.
(18) Especially the erectile tissue of the submandibular and parotic glands and recidiving sudden deafness are discussed.
(19) We discuss these findings in relation to pathologic observations in other reported cases of congenital deafness.
(20) These supplementary criteria should make identification simple, allow an abnormal response to be recognized and indications for treatment of the temporary deafness to be better defined.
Deafen
Definition:
(v. t.) To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
(v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the second experiment, intact females copulated twice with a male: once when they were able to hear and once when they were temporarily deafened with a medical ear mold.
(2) When the old BBC governors – a system of governance that essentially dated back to 1922 – was dismantled in 2006 the outcry that there might be something quickly nicknamed Ofbeeb was deafening.
(3) Adult song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) were tested for response to songs of conspecific males that had been reared in acoustic isolation or deafened early in life.
(4) Electroneural response patterns of single auditory-nerve neurons were studied in aminoglycoside-deafened squirrel monkeys.
(5) Wang, from Human Rights Watch, said that after a period of deafening silence those governments now needed to find their voice to ensure Liu Xia’s safety.
(6) The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is.
(7) If that happens, Osborne will get the blame as the hissing becomes deafening.
(8) These people stand at the edges of our avenues, of our streets, in deafening anonymity.” The passionate exhortation came hours after he addressed the United Nations , prayed at Ground Zero, visited a school in Harlem and cruised through Central Park, where 80,000 people greeted the 78-year-old Argentinean with rapture.
(9) The implantation of electrodes in neomycin-deafened cats did not result in heavy neuronal degeneration.
(10) Mobile phone messages and television advertisements urged an end to the dangerous and deafening habit of celebratory gunfire, which has caused several deaths and scores of injuries.
(11) Deafening, however, had no apparent, permanent effect on social behavior.
(12) Miliband defended his leadership on a tour round a south London market, amid criticism from colleagues that Labour has allowed a deafening silence to take hold over the parliamentary recess.
(13) One program focuses on postlingually deafened children from the ages of 10 to 17, while the other is designed for deafened children from 2 to 9 years.
(14) "We should, of course, listen to the interests associated with us, and the assortment of pressure groups banging on our door but never conflate their noise, which with social media can seem deafening, with public opinion or let them decide policy.
(15) We reexamined the effects of T on song-control nuclei in deafened birds.
(16) Etiology and genesis of the deafness are important in the sense that progressive deafened patients and patients with a post-leutic deafness have better expectations than those with a meningitic or traumatic deafness.
(17) We have also examined the effect of sinusoids on deafened implantees with tinnitus and conclude that tinnitus can be suppressed in some individuals with low frequency sine waves.
(18) Simulating a 10 micron unmyelinated termination for this model neuron produces a strength-duration curve that closely fits the single-neuron data obtained from aminoglycoside deafened animals.
(19) In the name of this suffering people, whose cries to heaven become more deafening each day, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression,” he said in a speech to government soldiers the day before his death.
(20) In five profoundly deafened adults, performance was better in consonant identification when additional speech patterns were present than with fundamental frequency alone; the main advantage was derived from amplitude information.