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Presbycusis

"Presbycusis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Gradual bilateral hearing loss associated with aging that is due to progressive degeneration of cochlear structures and central auditory pathways. Hearing loss usually begins with the high frequencies then progresses to sounds of middle and low frequencies.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Presbycusis" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Presbycusis" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2019
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.