Sensorineural deafness

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• Synonyms

  • Sensorineural hearing loss

• Causes

  • Presbycusis
  • Loud noise
  • Meniere's disease
  • Vestibulocochlear nerve palsy
  • Ototoxicity
  • Rubella
  • Mumps
  • Meningitis
  • Congenital syphilis
  • Alkaptonuria
  • Waardenburg syndrome
  • Cogan syndrome
  • Kearns-Sayre syndrome
  • Pendred syndrome
  • Friedrich ataxia
  • Minamata disease
  • Alport syndrome
  • Alport's triad
  • Hutchinson's triad
  • Congenital rubella syndrome
  • Salicylate poisoning

• Effects

  • Weber sign
  • Tinnitus

• Parents

  • Deafness

• Treatments

  • Hearing aid

• Description

  • "Hearing loss of old age. Greek presbys= elder; akousis = hearing Hair cell degeneration of the cochlea."