-cusis
Suffix Medical Terminology
Hearing.
Example: presbycusis (age-related hearing loss)
Sources
- Fundamentals of Nursing, Chapter 40 Key Terms · OpenStax
- Age-related hearing loss and dementia (Chern and Golub, 2020) · PubMed Central (NLM)
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