acoustic neuroma
Britishnoun
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In 2019, he praised his wife, calling her an "incredible role model" after she was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma and had to undergo surgery.
From Fox News • Mar. 25, 2022
An acoustic neuroma was rarer but also possible.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2022
After an MRI scan ruled out a benign tumor called an acoustic neuroma, Cutter began receiving steroid injections in her ear which, doctors hoped, would restore her hearing.
From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2021
When Bonham Carter was 13, her father, Raymond, a banker, was diagnosed with an acoustic neuroma – a noncancerous growth – in the brain cortex.
From The Guardian • Oct. 8, 2018
A woman with an acoustic neuroma, a benign tumor of the auditory nerve that can cause hearing loss, “might have denied the tumor the acoustical stimulation that helped trigger its development.”
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2010
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