Word.ws English Dictionary

osteophone

osteophone noun: an instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.

Noun

osteophone (plural osteophones)

  1. An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.
    Synonyms:
    BAHA

Synonyms of osteophone

Forms of osteophone

pluralosteophones

Origin of osteophone

From osteo- + -phone.

Questions about osteophone

What does osteophone mean?
Osteophone means an instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.
What part of speech is osteophone?
Osteophone is a noun.
What is the plural of osteophone?
The plural of osteophone is osteophones.

Words near osteophone in the dictionary

  1. osteophageous
  2. osteophagia
  3. osteophagous
  4. osteophagy
  5. osteophilic
  6. osteophone
  7. osteophones
  8. osteophylic
  9. osteophyte
  10. osteophytes
  11. osteophytic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: osteophone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “osteophone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/osteophone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.