Hearing loss may also present due to stroke of higher-level subcortical structures. Musiek and Baran (Musiek et al., 2007) reported a case of a patient with a subarachnoid bleed affecting both inferior colliculi.
The definition of an apostasy is the act of leaving behind, or straying from, your religious or political beliefs or your principles. An example of apostasy is when someone decides to become atheist. pl. -Â·sies. an abandoning of what one has believed in, as a faith, cause, or principles. Origin of apostasy.
1660s, one who has forsaken a doctrine or system regarded as true, apostate, from pervert (v.). Psychological sense of one who has a perversion of the sexual instinct is attested from 1897 (Havelock Ellis), originally especially of homosexuals.