[Is there such a thing as presbyacusia?].

Abstract

The term presbyacusis is misused in many cases. Aging is accompanied by a number of known and probably unknown processes that are more or less harmful for our hearing aquity. We all carry to our senium the cumulation of harms done to our hearing aquity in lifetime (Schmidt, 1966). Such as noise trauma, metabolic derangements, infections, and so on. Further investigations will make it possible in the future to come to a specific diagnosis that will lead to a better understanding of pathogenesis and pathology.