Deafness
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deafness-186-19182797
title:
Deafness
text:
Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts. In medical contexts, the meaning of deafness is hearing loss that precludes a person from understanding spoken language, an audiological condition. In this context it is written with a lower case d. It later came to be used in a cultural context to refer to those who primarily communicate through sign language regardless of hearing ability, often capitalized as Deaf and referred to as "big D Deaf" in speech and sign. The two defi
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Loss of hearing
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deafness
date created:
2014-02-24T02:13:15Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T14:16:28Z
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