10Diseases of the ear or mastoid process
Disorders with hearing impairment
AB51Acquired hearing impairment
AB51.0
category
Acquired conductive hearing loss
Definition Conductive hearing loss occurs when there is a problem conducting sound waves anywhere along the route through the outer ear, tympanic membrane (eardrum), or middle ear (ossicles), bilateral.
Also indexed as
Acquired conductive hearing loss conduction deafness
Nearby in Acquired hearing impairment
International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Revision (ICD-11), World Health Organization (WHO) 2019/2021, https://icd.who.int/browse11. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 3.0 IGO (CC BY-ND 3.0 IGO).
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