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hyperacusis Med.|-əˈk(j)uːsɪs|
Also -acousis, -acusia, -akusis.
[mod.L., f. hyper- 5 + Gr. ἄκουσις hearing (ἀκούειν to hear), after F. hypercousie (J. M. G. Itard Traité des Maladies de l'Oreille et de l'Audition (1821) II. 4).]
Abnormally acute hearing, often resulting in pain on hearing only moderately loud sounds.
1825J. M. Good Study of Med. (ed. 2) IV. 245 Hearing painfully acute and intolerant of the lowest sounds... It is the hypercousis, or, as it should rather be, the hyperacusis of M. Itard. 1894T. M. Hovell Treat. Dis. Ear xlv. 656 Hyperacusia, of a pathological kind, may be associated with increased power of other special senses. 1927Lake & Peters Handbk. Dis. Ear (ed. 5) xiv. 267 Hyperacousis is usually found (as otalgia) in females. 1971D. E. Rose Audiol. Assessment iii. 44 Other symptoms of disorders of the ear are..increased aural sensitivity to sound (recruitment and hyperacusis). |