Sentence examples for total deafness from inspiring English sources

His last years were spent in almost total deafness with others able to communicate with him only by writing.

More recently, in the face of near total deafness and blindness, Sykes appeared in the fourth Harry Potter film and, in 2007, the British comedy Son of Rambow.

About 37 million people suffer from some form of hearing loss — from minor impairment to total deafness — in the United States.

There are 225 students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12 whose hearing loss can range from near or total deafness to myriad gradations of hearing loss.

Dr. Deubler, now 80, was also schooled by her early years of almost total deafness, when adults shouted at her and her fellow students ignored her.

That ability is a long trip from total or nearly total deafness, and represents the first substantial restoration of a human sense using a medical intervention.

Unable to serve in the military because of near-total deafness in one ear, he left Byoir to work at a Columbia University wartime laboratory, developing a device to detect submarines from low-flying aircraft.

Ambitious new developments to assist people with total sensorineural deafness, including both cochlear and cochleus nuclear implants, require a detailed knowledge of the neural signals received by the brainstem and how these are processed.

The worse it got, the more total his deafness, the worse his health, the worse the level of privation in Vienna in the early 1820s, the greater and more visionary he became.

Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia deafness and narcolepsy.

† Sequelae: total or partial deafness (19), limb palsy (18), cranial nerve palsy (13), memory disturbances (10), vegetative state (5), speech disturbances (4), polyneuritis (3), blindness (3), bilateral leg amputation (2), seizures (2), myoclonia (2), hydrocephalus (1), chronic leg ulcers (1), long-term tracheostomy (1), and chronic renal failure (1).