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Phonophobia, also called ligyrophobia or sonophobia, is a fear of or aversion to loud sounds (for example firecrackers)—a type of specific phobia. [2] It is a very rare phobia which is often the symptom of hyperacusis. Sonophobia can refer to the hypersensitivity of a patient to sound and can be part of the diagnosis of a migraine.
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Children with pervasive developmental disorders may exhibit the following symptoms: Have trouble expressing or understanding ideas; Have trouble understanding nonverbal communication; Difficulty in social interactions; Temper tantrums; Aggressive behavior; May play differently with toys than other children; May have difficulty adjusting to new ...
348 Other conditions of brain. 348.0 Cerebral cysts; 348.1 Anoxic brain damage; 348.2 Benign intracranial hypertension; 348.3 Encephalopathy, unspecified; 348.4 Compression of brain; 348.5 Cerebral oedema; 348.8 Other; 348.9 Unspecified; 349 Other and unspecified disorders of the nervous system. 349.0 Reaction to spinal or lumbar puncture
Other signs commonly associated with meningitis include photophobia (intolerance to bright light) and phonophobia (intolerance to loud noises). Small children often do not exhibit the aforementioned symptoms, and may only be irritable and look unwell. [2] The fontanelle (the soft spot on the top of a baby's head) can bulge in infants aged up to ...
With treatment, the likelihood of hearing preservation varies inversely with the size of the tumor; for large tumors, preservation of hearing is rare. Because acoustic neuromas, meningiomas and most other CPA tumors are benign, slow growing or non-growing, and non-invasive, observation is a viable management option.
Wikipedia has yet to feature a list of people and I hope this is worthy of becoming the first. This subject is important in part because brain tumors are a leading form of childhood cancer. Overall survival statistics are not encouraging. Lists of famous people who have had this illness tend to be incomplete, out of date, or inaccurate.
People with HIV or cancer are immunosuppressed so are likely to get infections of the meninges or infections in the brain causing abscesses. Cancer can metastasize, or travel through the blood or lymph to other sites in the body. Neuroimaging, lumbar puncture if neuroimaging is negative