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hyperacusis

very rare and extremely debilitating hearing disorder characterized by unusual intolerance to ordinary environmental sounds
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hyperacusis

Summary

hyperacusis ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,642 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • hyperacusis is a type of hearing disorder[2].
  • hyperacusis is a type of Auditory hypersensitivity[3].
  • hyperacusis's Commons category is recorded as Hyperacusis[4].
  • hyperacusis's afflicts is recorded as acoustic threshold of pain[5].
  • hyperacusis's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C116366[6].
  • hyperacusis's health specialty is recorded as otolaryngology[7].
  • hyperacusis's studied by is recorded as audiology[8].
  • hyperacusis's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0002183[9].
  • hyperacusis's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Hearing Health[10].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include hearing disorder[2] and Auditory hypersensitivity[3].

Why It Matters

hyperacusis ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,642 views/month).[1] hyperacusis has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] hyperacusis is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

otolaryngology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Sabrina2026 · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Afflicts → acoustic threshold of pain
    Symptoms and signs → ['Q1596398', 'Q154430', 'Q4340209', 'Q123414']
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P780]]: [[Q154430]]"
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