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  2. Presbycusis - Wikipedia

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    Presbycusis is the most common cause of hearing loss, affecting one out of three persons by age 65, and one out of two by age 75. Presbycusis is the second most common illness next to arthritis in aged people. Many vertebrates such as fish, birds and amphibians do not experience presbycusis in old age as they are able to regenerate their ...

  3. Hearing loss - Wikipedia

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    Hearing loss has multiple causes, including ageing, genetics, perinatal problems and acquired causes like noise and disease. For some kinds of hearing loss the cause may be classified as of unknown cause. [citation needed] There is a progressive loss of ability to hear high frequencies with aging known as presbycusis. For men, this can start as ...

  4. Causes of hearing loss - Wikipedia

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    There can be damage either to the ear, whether the external or middle ear, to the cochlea, or to the brain centres that process the aural information conveyed by the ears. Damage to the middle ear may include fracture and discontinuity of the ossicular chain. Damage to the inner ear (cochlea) may be caused by temporal bone fracture. People who ...

  5. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally aging is not considered as a cause of death. It is believed that there is always a more direct cause, and usually it is one of many age-related diseases. It is estimated that, as a root cause, the aging process underlies 2/3 of all death in the world

  6. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    process of viewing Greek σκοπέω (skopéō), to look at, behold, examine endoscopy: scoto-darkness Greek σκότος (skótos) scotopic vision: semi-one-half, partly Latin semi-semiconscious sial(o)-saliva, salivary gland: Latin salīva, saliva. sialagogue: sigmoid(o)-sigmoid, S-shaped curvature

  7. Sensorineural hearing loss - Wikipedia

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    Hearing loss that worsens with age but is caused by factors other than normal aging, such as noise-induced hearing loss, is not presbycusis, although differentiating the individual effects of multiple causes of hearing loss can be difficult. One in three persons have significant hearing loss by age 65; by age 75, one in two.

  8. Noise-induced hearing loss - Wikipedia

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    It reduces the inflammation caused by the acoustic trauma, which would cause subsequent damages to hair cells. While an anti-inflammatory medication would increase the quantity of anti-inflammatory hormone in the whole body, noise conditioning increases the number of receptors for the anti-inflammatory hormone, and only in the areas where it is ...

  9. Acoustic trauma - Wikipedia

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    Of teenagers, 20-50 percent experience exposure to noise levels high enough to cause acute acoustic trauma. [10] Hearing loss due to noise is the second most common sensorineural hearing loss, after age-related hearing loss (presbycusis). Of more than 28 million Americans with some degree of hearing impairment, as many as 10 million have ...