title: Presbycusis: the need for a clinical definition.
abstract: The term presbycusis is vague and needs specific signs and symptoms for its definition. Several types of presbycusis, depending on the type of lesion, have been proposed. This article suggests a working definition of "classic presbycusis," which may be defined as a syndrome involving (1) a bilaterally symmetric sensorineural hearing loss, (2) absent or partial recruitment, (3) negative noise history, and (4) poorer speech discrimination than indicated by pure tones (phonemic regression).
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D001301:Audiometry, Pure-Tone; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011304:Presbycusis / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis; D009626:Terminology as Topic