listening
hearing | the act of hearing attentively, you can learn a lot by just listening, they make good music--you should give them a hearing |
| hearing | (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence |
| administrative hearing | a hearing that takes place outside the judicial process before hearing examiners who have been granted judicial authority specifically for the purpose of conducting such hearings |
| competence hearing | a hearing to determine legal capacity (to determine whether the defendant can understand the charges and cooperate with a lawyer in preparing a defense) |
| fair hearing | a hearing that is granted in extraordinary situations where the normal judicial process would be inadequate to secure due process because the person would be harmed or denied their rights before a judicial remedy became available (as in deportation or loss of welfare benefits) |
| hearing dog | dog trained to assist the deaf by signaling the occurrence of certain sounds |
hearing aid
ear trumpet | a conical acoustic device formerly used to direct sound to the ear of a hearing-impaired person |
| hearing aid deaf-aid | an electronic device that amplifies sound and is worn to compensate for poor hearing |
auditory meatus
acoustic meatus
ear canal
auditory canal
external auditory canal | either of the passages in the outer ear from the auricle to the tympanic membrane |
| auditory ossicle | ossicles of the middle ear that transmit acoustic vibrations from the eardrum to the inner ear |
| auditory system | the sensory system for hearing |
| auditory apparatus | all of the components of the organ of hearing including the outer and middle and inner ears |
| organ of hearing | the part of the ear that is responsible for sensations of sound |
Eustachian tube
auditory tube | either of the paired tubes connecting the middle ears to the nasopharynx, equalizes air pressure on the two sides of the eardrum |
labyrinthine artery
artery of the labyrinth
internal auditory artery | an artery that is a branch of the basilar artery that supplies the labyrinth |
labyrinthine vein
internal auditory vein | veins that drain the inner ear |
| auditory center | the part of the brain (in a fold of the cerebral cortex of the temporal lobe on both sides of the brain) that receives impulses from the ear by way of the auditory nerve |
acoustic nerve
auditory nerve
vestibulocochlear nerve
nervus vestibulocochlearis
eighth cranial nerve | a composite sensory nerve supplying the hair cells of the vestibular organ and the hair cells of the cochlea |
auditory area
auditory cortex | the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body |
hearing
audition
auditory sense
sense of hearing
auditory modality | the ability to hear, the auditory faculty, his hearing was impaired |
auditory perception
sound perception | the perception of sound as a meaningful phenomenon |
sound
auditory sensation | the subjective sensation of hearing something, he strained to hear the faint sounds |
colored hearing
colored audition | a form of chromesthesia in which experiences of color accompany auditory stimuli |
| auditory image | a mental image that is similar to an auditory perception |
| auditory communication | communication that relies on hearing |
| hearing | a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken, the investigative committee will hold hearings in Chicago |
| confirmation hearing | a hearing held by the US Senate to gather information on whether to approve or reject candidates for high federal office who are nominated by the president |
earshot
earreach
hearing | the range within which a voice can be heard, the children were told to stay within earshot |
hearing examiner
hearing officer | an official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powers |
auditory aphasia
acoustic aphasia
word deafness | an impairment in understanding spoken language that is not attributable to hearing loss |
| auditory agnosia | inability to recognize or understand the meaning of spoken words |
auditory hallucination
acousma | illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds |
hearing
audience | an opportunity to state your case and be heard, they condemned him without a hearing, he saw that he had lost his audience |
hearing impairment
hearing disorder | impairment of the sense of hearing |
deafness
hearing loss | partial or complete loss of hearing |
conductive hearing loss
conduction deafness
middle-ear deafness | hearing loss due to problems with the bones of the middle ear |
hyperacusis
hyperacusia
auditory hyperesthesia | abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism, characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels |
sensorineural hearing loss
nerve deafness | hearing loss due to failure of the auditory nerve |
hard-of-hearing
hearing-impaired | having a hearing loss |
| hearing(a) | able to perceive sound |
| safety-related | providing or ensuring safety |
| related | connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage |
akin(p)
blood-related
cognate consanguine
consanguineous
consanguineal
kin(p) | related by blood |
| related related to | being connected either logically or causally or by shared characteristics , painting and the related arts, school-related activities, related to micelle formation is the...ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil-water interfaces |
| age-related | changing (increasing or decreasing) as an individual's age increases |
auditory
audile
auditive | of or relating to the process of hearing, auditory processing, an audile person |