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A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoordination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Meniere, a French physician.
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v. t.
To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Deafen
imp. & p. p.
of Deafen
a.
Net having the sense of hearing; deaf.
v. t.
Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening.
v. t.
To deafen.
a.
Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.
n.
A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, or has lost it.
n.
One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.
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.
n.
An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.
a.
As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
a.
Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.
a.
Deprived of the power of hearing; deafened.
v. t.
To free from deafness; to cause to hear.
n.
Deafness.
n.
Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb.
n.
The condition of being a deaf-mute.
n.
A kind of ear trumpet for the deaf, or the partially deaf.
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