profoundly deaf

adjective

unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear

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Jodie, who is profoundly deaf and was fitted with a cochlear implant at a young age, credits their support for shaping who she is today.

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Wendy Martin, who is 68 and from Oxford, is "profoundly deaf" and uses a hearing aid.

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Sade Oram, 25, and her younger sister Topaz, 23, were diagnosed profoundly deaf as toddlers and fitted with cochlear implants.

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Lucy, 22, was diagnosed as being profoundly deaf at nine months.

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Eli Lilly announced this week, for example, that a profoundly deaf boy from Morocco given its treatment as part of a clinical trial in Philadelphia can now hear.