Article from BBC's frontpage - "Japanese pop star deaf in one ear"

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Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

I'm a physician and tinnitus IS a symoptom not a disease. The meaning of tinnitus is "a ringing in the ears". Tinnitus isn't necessarily related with hearing loss. It's a symptom caused wen you have a problem in the inner ear, and can be caused by SEVERAL diseases. You can go deaf without having tinnitus or you could go deaf having tinnitus, or you can have tinnitus and not go deaf. It's plainly a symptom and not a disease.

You are just describing what the symptom "tinnitus" is.

Check this:

http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/211/main.html

Sorry. ^__^; I've researched this a few times, and I've seen different descriptions for it. (I've heard it being called a symptom, a disease, and a disorder.) I just don't see why a SYMPTOM would have a national organization, like I said. (Which there is one, not lying, it's right here.)