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Unilateral Hearing Loss - What Is Unilateral Hearing Loss

By Jamie Berke, About.com

Updated December 02, 2008

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Definition: A hearing loss that affects only one ear; the other ear can still hear normally. Even though one ear is only affected, unilateral hearing loss still has an effect. Here are more details on unilateral hearing loss.

Unilateral hearing loss also comes up from time to time on the About Deafness blog. Here are some posts that deal with unilateral hearing loss:

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