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CORTICAL DEAFNESS [1 record]

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Record 1 2012-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hearing
DEF

The inability to perceive or to appreciate and interpret the meaning of sounds, especially speech, due to lesions of the auditory temporal cortex.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Ouïe
DEF

Abolition partielle ou complète du sens de l'ouïe [...] due à une lésion [...] du cortex temporal.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Oído
DEF

Pérdida de la capacidad auditiva debido a una lesión en la corteza.

CONT

[En la] sordera cortical [...] los pacientes tienen dificultades para reconocer estímulos auditivos verbales y no verbales, [...] se origina por la destrucción bilateral [en] la corteza auditiva.

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