Audiphone
[ɒ:difәun]
Definition
(n.) An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.
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Definition
n. an instrument which is pressed against the upper front teeth the convex side outwards in order to communicate sounds to the teeth and bones of the skull thence to the organs of hearing.
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Examples
- An audiphone for deaf people. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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