10Diseases of the ear or mastoid process
Disorders with hearing impairment
AB51Acquired hearing impairment
AB51.1
category
Acquired sensorineural hearing loss
Definition Sensorineural hearing loss is a type of hearing loss in which the root cause lies in the vestibulocochlear nerve (Cranial nerve VIII), the inner ear, or central processing centres of the brain.
Also indexed as
Acquired sensorineural hearing loss SNHL - [sensorineural hearing loss]
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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