conduction deafness
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Related to conduction deafness: nerve deafness, tone deafness, sensorineural deafness, transmission deafness
conduction deafness
[kən′dək·shən ‚def·nəs] (medicine)
Deafness involving an impairment of the mechanism that conducts sound to the sense organ.