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sensorineural hearing loss

phrase

C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Hearing loss arising from damage to the cochlea or the auditory nerve pathway.

Sudden unilateral sensorineural hearing loss is an emergency requiring prompt steroid treatment.

Topic: ENT in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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