Definition of Hyperacusis

1. Noun. Abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism; characterized by intolerance for ordinary sound levels.


Definition of Hyperacusis

1. Noun. (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Hyperacusis

1. Hyperacusia Abnormal acuteness of hearing due to increased irritability of the sensory neural mechanism. Synonym: auditory hyperesthesia. Origin: hyper-+ G. Akousis, a hearing (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperacusis

hyperactivated
hyperactivates
hyperactive
hyperactive child syndrome
hyperactively
hyperactiveness
hyperactives
hyperactivism
hyperactivities
hyperactivity
hyperacuities
hyperacuity
hyperacusia
hyperacusic
hyperacusis (current term)
hyperacute
hyperacute purulent conjunctivitis
hyperacute rejection
hyperadenosis
hyperadiposis
hyperadrenalcorticalism
hyperadrenalism
hyperadrenocorticalism
hyperadrenocorticism
hyperaemia
hyperaemic
hyperaesthesia
hyperaesthesias
hyperaesthetic

Literary usage of Hyperacusis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Diagnostics of Internal Medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1901)
"An extraordinary acuteness of the sense of hearing (hyperacusis) may be symptomatic of hysteria, facial paralysis with loss of power in the stapedius muscle ..."

2. An Index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by Herbert French (1918)
"303 hyperacusis in .. 308 hyperpyrexia in 309, 310 - irregular pulse with.. 147 - leucocytosis with 360, 361 no leucocytosis in . ..."

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