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Audiphone

Audiphone \Au"di*phone\, n. [L. audire to hear + Gr. ? sound.] An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

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audiphone

n. An instrument which, placed against the tooth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly.

Usage examples of "audiphone".

His hand went up to make some adjustment of his audiphone before he spoke.

And an instrument room with signaling apparatus, senders, receivers, mirror-grids and audiphones of several varieties.

My audiphones, which would have recorded the sound of any movement, however faint, remained stubbornly silent.