Adjacent Words

tinnitus definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a ringing or booming sensation in one or both ears; a symptom of an ear infection or Meniere's disease

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Latin, ringing, tinnitus, from tinnire to ring, of imitative origin Date: 1843 a sensation of noise (as a ringing or roaring) that is caused by a bodily condition (as a disturbance of the auditory nerve or wax in the ear) and typically is of the subjective form which can only be heard by the one affected

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Med. a ringing in the ears. Etymology: L f. tinnire tinnit- ring, tinkle, of imit. orig.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tinnitus Tin*ni"tus, n. [L., fr. tinnire to jingle.] (Med.) A ringing, whistling, or other imaginary noise perceived in the ears; -- called also tinnitus aurium.