Sentences with phrase «deafness which»

Cavaliers can suffer from congenital deafness which is present at birth and is due to a lack of formation or early degeneration of receptors in the inner ear.

This breed is very known for deafness which can make it jumpy.

Some are prodigies, kids as young as 10 bashing out Rachmaninov, others have more love for music than talent: one particular middle - aged lady makes jokes about her tone - deafness which almost makes her devotion all the more impressive.

Not exact matches

Man, I don't know if we will be able to have any more blessings, but I am going to make sure I work on my reserves JIC we do... & in the meantime, my body & health will benefit too because I KNOW I am deficient... which all started during my 2nd pregnancy w / sudden partial deafness & tinnitus... seemingly out of the blue, but now I suspect nothing is what I have been told all these years about my hearing loss & tinnitus either....

My favorite was Health Newsline's headline, which claimed that sleep machines can cause deafness.

A very small percentage of jaundiced newborns develop a condition called kernicterus, which can result in deafness, delayed development, or a form of cerebral palsy.

They are vital for hearing in mammals but are easily damaged by loud noise, which can lead to deafness.

Unlike the «super-readers», the latter manage to master lip - reading as deafness encroaches, and therefore maintain a central phonological organisation very similar to that of normo - hearing people, which uses the left hemisphere of the brain.

The French team and a British group that discovered the mouse gene both decided to see if the mutation — which hampers the production of a protein called myosin VIIA — might, as in the mice, explain inherited deafness without other sensory loss.

But the same approach might work for other dominant forms of inherited deafness, which account for around a fifth of cases.

Researchers from the Eaton - Peabody Laboratories of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Harvard Medical School have created a new mouse model in which by expressing a gene in the inner ear hair cells — the sensory cells that detect sound and sense balance — protects the mice from age - related hearing loss (ARHL) and noise - induced hearing loss (NIHL), the two most common forms of deafness.

In filing their brief, the groups cited Navy documents which estimated that such testing would kill some 170,000 marine mammals and cause permanent injury to more than 500 whales, not to mention temporary deafness for at least 8,000 others.

Implantable prostheses designed to deliver electrical stimuli directly to the auditory nerve hold considerable promise for people with a type of deafness in which the sensory hair cells of the inner ear are damaged

The find, described in the February issue of Nature Genetics, could eventually lead to a genetic test for Branchio - oto - renal (BOR) syndrome, which occurs in one in 10,000 births and accounts for 2 % of cases of childhood deafness.

Gene mutations at more than 200 locations on the genome cause inherited deafness, which accounts for about half of deafness in general.

Otoferlin's size has precluded rescue experiments in which a modified mRNA for otoferlin is transfected into an animal model to replace a suppressed or knocked - down otoferlin gene causing deafness.

Mutations in the protein, otoferlin, are linked to severe congenital hearing loss, a common type of deafness in which patients can hear almost nothing.

Monell's major source of funding comes from competitive government research grants, primarily through the National Institutes on Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders at the National Institutes of Health, which provides support for both research and training.

The first detailed genetic comparison of purebred domestic dogs promises to rewrite the textbooks with new information about breed classification and insights that may improve canine health by boosting understanding of the more than 350 inherited disorders, including cancer, heart disease, epilepsy, blindness and deafness, which affect dogs.

In addition, the drug of choice was cisplatin, which can sometimes cause deafness.

Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy «s film is undoubtedly a difficult watch, featuring an abortion, some graphic scenes of sex and bloody violence, and the eerie quietness in which it's all carried out is less a comment on deafness than a clever way of making us examine the idea of a closed system which, «Lord of the Flies «- like, refers only to itself.

Deafblindness means concomitant hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they can not be accommodated in special education programs solely for students with deafness or students with blindness (Utah Special Education Rules, II.J.2.

A hearing loss above 90 decibels is generally considered deafness, which means that a hearing loss below 90 decibels is classified as a hearing impairment.

The IDEA officially defines the term as «concomitant [simultaneous] hearing and visual impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational needs that they can not be accommodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness.»

The term «severe handicap» means the disability which requires multiple services over an extended period of time and results from amputation, blindness, cancer, cerebral palsy, cystic fibrosis, deafness, heart disease, hemiplegia, mental retardation, mental illness, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, neurological disorders (including stroke and epilepsy), paraplegia, quadriplegia and other spinal cord conditions, renal failure, respiratory or pulmonary dysfunction, and any other disability specified by the Secretary in regulations he shall prescribe.

It was like this treat, this big fat 500 - page densely written treat, sitting on my desk, and I tell you once I started it I was in a transfixed and highly emotional state until I was done, and goddamn if I wasn't right: in that book, in all those beautiful, heartbreaking, inspiring, illuminating stories of families figuring out how to adjust their lives to (for example) Down Syndrome or deafness or intellectual disabilities, I found exactly what it was I wanted to do next, which is write a book about the ways that parents and children navigate each other.

She almost always has her nose buried in a book, becoming so absorbed that she experiences temporary deafness while reading, to which her long - suffering (and somewhat hoarse) family members can attest.

Tim Falconer is the author of Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music, which the Globe and Mail named to The Globe 100 Best Books of 2016.

Breeding two Merle coated parents together can result in a puppy being born with two Merle genes which can resulting in the puppy developing blindness or deafness, this will happen to 1 in 4 of the puppies in the litter, statistically.

Assistance dogs include guide or leader dogs that guide individuals who are legally blind; hearing dogs that alert individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing to specific sounds; and service dogs for individuals with disabilities other than blindness or deafness, which are trained to perform a variety of physical tasks, including, but not limited to, pulling a wheelchair, lending balance support, picking up dropped objects, or providing assistance in a medical crisis.

Boston terriers are prone to a lot of hereditary and congenital problems, which include heart problems, deafness y juvenile cataracts.

Secondly, these breeds tend to have fairly high deafness rates, which doesn't seem to be a problem with Samoyeds.

Parents and puppies can both be tested for deafness, which can be hard to discover in a pet that is only deaf in one ear.

In extreme cases, they can cause a rupture of the ear drum, which may lead to seizures and deafness.

The BAER test is ideal for identifying deafness in breeds predisposed to hearing loss, which are:

Cavaliers can also develop progressive hearing loss, which usually begins during puppyhood and progresses to profound deafness between the ages of three and five years.

Knowing which dogs to breed resulted in reducing the deafness problem which plagues many kennels.

If OES breeders only selected for all white headed dogs in their breeding program, they would ultimately produce dogs that have less and less dark areas, which is related to deafness.

In addition, two copies of the M allele large enough to produce the merle coat color are thought to cause the death of skin melanocytes, retinal pigment cells, and melanocytes of the inner ear which can result in significant white areas of the coat, eye abnormalities and deafness.

At Southeast Veterinary Neurology (SEVN), we can use this test to check for any of a number of types of deafness, which include inherited, congenital, conductive or sensorineural deafness.

The piebald, extreme white and merle coat colours are associated with deafness, selection against which would eliminate the problem.

Some puppies are born deaf, which is known as congenital deafness.

Double merles are highly likely to suffer from eye or ear deformities (in some cases both) which at the most extreme can result in complete blindness and deafness.

Be informed of and work diligently toward the elimination of hereditary health problems of the breed by refraining from breeding a dog or bitch if they have, in 2 litters to different partners, produced offspring with the same serious genetic defect, such as: blindness, deafness, PDA, lameness, or impairment of vital functions which prevent these offspring from living a normal, healthy life without major surgical or significant medical intervention.

Inherited deafness has been reported in IG's particularly in individuals which are solid white or have only small patches of color on their heads or ears.

If two dogs with the dominant merle genes bred together, there's a 25 % chance that the pups will have a double merle gene, which creates an extreme lightening of the coat and often deafness and eye defects.

Having just rehomed a little cross breed myself and then discovered her deafness, I know which one will get more out of living a normal life, so terribly sad for these brachycephalic dogs.

Genetic transmission of deafness in dogs with the recessive alleles of this pigment gene, such as the Dalmatian (which is homozygous for sw), is less clear.

A different form of congenital hereditary deafness is seen in the Doberman, which is also accompanied by vestibular (balance) disturbance; this deafness results from a different mechanism where hair cell death is not the result of degeneration of the stria but is instead the primary pathology.

Vestibular (balance) system signs, including head tilt and circling, are seen, and the deafness, which is usually bilateral, is transmitted by a simple autosomal recessive mechanism.