An effective treatment for tinnitus where the person with tinnitus undergoes a two-part treatment which includes wearing a white-noise generator set to a bit below the level of their tinnitus, and directive counseling where the person learns about tinnitus and how to break their emotional attachment to it.

A hearing aid-like device that produces white noise the purpose of which is to cover up the internal tinnitus sounds.

A temporary (lasting less than a day) hearing loss due to exposure to loud sounds. Repeated exposure to sound loud enough to cause TTS can eventually lead to permanent hearing loss–a Permanent Threshold Shift.

(TIN-ih-tus or tih-NIGH-tus) A sensation (subjective perception) of various (phantom) noises in the ears. Tinnitus is variously described as ringing, roaring, clicking, humming, buzzing, swishing, whooshing, clanging, shrieking and other similar sounds that seems to originate in your ears or head. It is not a disease, but a symptom of various abnormal underlying condition it […]

In audiometry, the softest sounds (usually pure tones or speech) a person can detect 50% of the time. The term is used for both speech and pure tone testing.

See Teletype.