Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
audiphone .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.
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- noun An
instrument fortransmission ofauditory vibrations through thebones of thehead , so as to be appreciated as sounds by personsdeaf from causes other than those affecting thenervous apparatus of hearing.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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