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What does hyperacusis mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) A heightened sensitivity to some sounds
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What distinguishes people with hyperacusis is not their hearing thresholds, but their reaction to sounds above threshold.
If you have hyperacusis you are likely to have normal hearing; however, you may have difficulty understanding speech in noisy places, such as a train station.
The first symptoms are circumoral paresthesia, numbness of the tongue, lightheadedness, hyperacusis and tinnitus.
Rare were hyperacusis, smell perversion, photophobia, photopsia, itching eye, and eye swelling.
Equally, the story of the girl Célistine who, after a visit to the movies, is suffering from tinnitus and hyperacusis, is probably not unfamiliar to you either.
People who are exposed to loud sounds for a long time, for example in their job, can find their hyperacusis gets worse.

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