The phrase "absence of hearing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing hearing loss, deafness, or situations where hearing is not present.
Example: "The study focused on the impact of the absence of hearing on social interactions among children."
Alternatives: "lack of hearing" or "deafness".
For years, Deaf people had to endure being viewed as incomplete because of their absence of hearing.
This finding is in stark contrast to results of population-level hearing evaluations of bottlenose dolphin in Sarasota Bay, Florida, during capture-release health assessments [16] that have shown a general absence of hearing loss across more than 60 dolphins of a variety of ages and both sexes [17].
An indirect proof of the absence of hearing loss in our patients is the absence of significant delays in language development evaluated at the age of one and two years.
That email contained a reminder about their understanding when the event was first arranged: In the absence of hearing from you we have proceeded on the basis you are happy to go ahead even though the commission is still in hearing (not expected when originally arranged) and thought it presumptuous to do other than leave that up to you.
The programme would be coordinated, from the start, by a university team, with ONE's role confined to raising parents' awareness, particularly in the event of the absence of hearing tests or in the presence of non-conclusive results.
This established a diagnosis of loricrin keratoderma (previously known as Vohwinkel syndrome with ichthyosis, or Vohwinkel syndrome variant), distinct from classical Vohwinkel syndrome by the co-occurrence of generalized ichthyosis and the absence of hearing loss.
It should be recommended as a standard procedure in tinnitus patients of younger age including children in the absence of clinical signs of hearing impairment.
The diagnosis of stirrup fixation by otosclerosis is made on the basis of a history of a gradually increasing impairment of hearing with absence of any chronic infection of the middle ear or of perforation of the tympanic membrane and with hearing tests showing that the auditory nerve in the inner ear is functioning but that sound fails to be conducted properly to it.
Based on the prevalence of hearing impairment in their unselected patient cohort and our own experience, such an approach is neither likely to be cost-effective nor is it clinically justified in the absence of overt hearing difficulties.
ii) Severe neurodevelopmental disability; defined as CP with GMFCS level 3 5; or a BSID-II score of < −3SD below the mean (i.e. MDI or PDI <55), or absence of useful hearing even with aids (i.e. >90dB hearing level), or blindness or only perception of light or light reflecting objects.
Self-reported hearing was ascertained by crude functional clinical examination and defined as the absence of usable hearing acquired during or soon after (within 6 months) amikacin treatment.
