Some people experience a mix of both sensorineural and conductive hearing loss. Hearing loss is considered mixed if there are problems both before and after the cochlea. It’s important to get a ...

The three types of hearing loss are conductive, sensorineural, and mixed. Conductive hearing loss involves the sound conducting outer or middle ear and occurs with decreased transmission of sound ...

Most commonly, sensorineural hearing loss originates in the inner ear, which contains very delicate sensory cells called hair cells. Mixed hearing loss is a combination of conductive and ...

Hearing loss is generally categorized into conductive, sensorineural, and a combination of the 2 types. Table I lists selected causes of conductive and sensorineural types of hearing loss in females.