Fifteen profoundly deaf patients under the age of 18 years have received a 3M/House cochlear implant. The surgical procedure employed is essentially the same as that used in adults with a few modifications to accommodate for the smaller dimensions of the mastoid process and the thinness of the ...
Cochlear implantation is an operation performed for the rehabilitation of severe to profound hearing loss. In addition to insertion of an electrode into the cochlea, it involves the placement of an implant package between the temporalis and calvarium. The implant package includes a receiver–stimulato...
cochlear implant (ˈkɒklɪə) n (Medicine) a device that stimulates the acoustic nerve in the inner ear in order to produce some form of hearing in people who are deaf from inner ear disease Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins ...
For severe or very severe deafness in both ears, the cochlear implant can be used for localizing the lesion to the cochlea.Selection criteria for deaf patients before speech:1. bilateral severe or profound sensorineural hearing loss; the best age should be 12 months to 5 years; the right of ...
cochlear implant n. An electronic apparatus that allows people with severe hearing loss to recognize some sounds, especially speech sounds, and that consists chiefly of a microphone and receiver, a processor that converts speech into electronic signals, and an array of electrodes that transmit the ...
2.Cochlear implantation for prelinguistic deaf patients with encephalic disease (3 cases report);伴颅内疾患语前聋病人的人工耳蜗植入术(附3例报告) 3.Cochlear implantation in patients with residual low frequency hearing有低频残余听力感音神经聋的人工耳蜗植入术 5)Cochlea implant人工耳蜗植入 1.This paper...
whose ground-breaking research led to the development of the world’s first micro-electronic multi-channel cochlear implant (CI), which was successfully implanted in 1977 and was the basis for what is known as the modern CI today. This laid the foundation for the successful growth of the comp...
Cerf received a cochlear implant when she was 53, but says she understands the deaf perspective. "The deaf community is a culture. They're much like the culture of the Hispanic community, for example, where parents who are Hispanic, or shall we say deaf, would naturally want to retain the...
An equal number of deaf children with normal-hearing parents were selected by matched sampling as a reference group. Participants were matched based on onset and severity of deafness, duration of deafness, age at cochlear implantation, duration of cochlear implantation, gender, and cochlear implant ...
5.3.1An overview of cochlear implant technology Thecochlear implantis a successful and maturehearingtechnology designed for severe–profoundly deaf patients. The system consists of two major parts: (1) an externally worn sound processor which incorporates a microphone, a power supply (which also power...