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Acoustic Trauma

Fajaruddin Maruf

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Denition

Acoustic trauma is injury to thehearing mechanisms of the inner eardue to excessive noise (> 85 d!"

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#tio$ogy

Acoustic trauma is a %reva$ent causeof sensorinura$ hearing $oss and itmay &e caused &y an ex%$osion c$ose

to the ear' gun shots' $ongtermex%osure to $oud noise (such asmachinery noise!

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