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audiphone definition

☆ audi·phone (ô′də fōn′)

noun

a device for the hard of hearing that transmits sound to the auditory nerves through the bones of the head, as by being placed against the teeth

Etymology: audi(o)- + -phone

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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