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acoustic neuroma

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noun

  1. a benign brain tumour of the vestibulocochlear nerve, one of the nerves connecting the ear to the brain, which can cause hearing and balance problems

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

The pathologist confirmed that the tumor was an acoustic neuroma.

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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