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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In psychological acoustics, double hearing: applied usually to the hearing of the same tone in a different pitch by the two ears (diplacusis binauralis), but also to the arousing of two tonal sensations in the same ear by a single stimulus.
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"paracusis of Willis" -- a condition in which the patient hears better in a noise; "diplacusis," or double hearing; and "hyperæsthesia acustica," or painful impressions of sound.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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