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2. Cochlear implant - Wikipedia

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   A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted neuroprosthesis that provides a person who has moderate-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss with sound perception. With the help of therapy, cochlear implants may allow for improved speech understanding in both quiet and noisy environments.

3. Autoimmune inner ear disease - Wikipedia

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   Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED) was first defined by Dr. Brian McCabe in a landmark paper describing an autoimmune loss of hearing. [2] The disease results in progressive sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) that acts bilaterally and asymmetrically, and sometimes affects an individual's vestibular system.

4. Sensorineural hearing loss - Wikipedia

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   In cases of profound or total deafness, a cochlear implant is a specialised device that may restore a functional level of hearing. SNHL is at least partially preventable by avoiding environmental noise, ototoxic chemicals and drugs, and head trauma, and treating or inoculating against certain triggering diseases and conditions like meningitis .

5. What does it sound like to hear with a cochlear implant? A ...

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   The 40-second clip cycles through what a person with a cochlear implant hears when various tones are played, followed by several sentences of speech.

6. Melissa's cochlear implant activation is an emotional success

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   Worried she might never enjoy music again, she was nervous about having a cochlear implant. When the activation was successful, she was ecstatic. Melissa's cochlear implant activation is an ...

7. Noise-induced hearing loss - Wikipedia

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   The symptoms mentioned above are the external signs of the physiological response to cochlear overstimulation. Here are some elements of this response: Damaged sensory hairs (stereocilia) of the hair cells; damaged hair cells degenerate and die. In humans and other mammals, dead hair-cells are never replaced; the resulting hearing loss is ...

8. Electric acoustic stimulation - Wikipedia

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   In most routine cochlear implant surgeries, any residual hearing will likely be destroyed. The residual hearing preservation rate in cochlear implantation is influenced surgical factors. The residual median hearing preservation for children was identified to be better when perimodiolar electrodes were inserted with AOS through fenestral ...

9. Tasha Ghouri Loses Cochlear Implant ‘For a Couple of ... - AOL

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   Love Island UK alum Tasha Ghouri slayed her latest Strictly Come Dancing routine even after a slight malfunction with her cochlear implant. “Her implant came off for a couple of seconds ...