Usage Note
Tinnitus is the perception of ringing, buzzing, or hissing in the ears with no external source. Affecting millions in Germany, it is widely discussed in hearing and stress-related health media, making it standard health vocabulary.
Examples
"Chronischer Tinnitus kann die Lebensqualität erheblich beeinträchtigen."
Natural Translation
Chronic tinnitus can considerably impair quality of life.
Literal Translation
Chronic tinnitus can the life-quality considerably impair.
Related Words
- Akkommodation accommodation (focusing adjustment of the eye lens)
- Anosmie anosmia, loss of smell
- Blick look
- Bogengang semicircular canal (inner ear)
- Brennen burning sensation
- Dunkeladaptation dark adaptation (eye adjustment from light to darkness)
- Dämmerungssehen twilight vision, scotopic vision
- Eigengeruch body odour; characteristic personal scent
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