La vía ósea permite detectar la hipoacusia.

to allow

Breakdown of La vía ósea permite detectar la hipoacusia.

• la vía ósea: bone conduction (hearing test)
• la hipoacusia: partial hearing loss (clinical term)
• detectar: to detect

Questions & Answers about La vía ósea permite detectar la hipoacusia.

What does vía ósea mean here?

Literally, vía means route, way, pathway, and ósea means bony / relating to bone.

In this medical context, la vía ósea refers to bone conduction or the bone-conduction pathway — in other words, sound being transmitted through the bones rather than through the normal air-conduction route.

So this is specialized medical vocabulary, not an everyday use of vía.

Why is it la vía? Is vía feminine?

Yes. Vía is a feminine noun, so it takes la:

• la vía
• una vía
• la vía ósea

This can confuse learners because some feminine nouns that begin with a stressed a- sound use el in the singular, like el agua. But vía does not follow that pattern, so it stays la vía.

Why is it ósea and not óseo?

Because ósea is an adjective describing vía, and adjectives must agree with the noun in gender and number.

Here:

• vía = feminine singular
• so the adjective must also be feminine singular: ósea

Compare:

• tejido óseo = bone tissue
• estructura ósea = bony structure
• vía ósea = bone pathway / bone conduction route