These kind of tests can clue a person in on if they have hearing loss or not, although results aren t always accurate. Disease Noise-induced hearing loss can also bring along other diseases. While tinnitus is generally defined as noises heard in the ear in the absence of matching noises in the surrounding environment, this definition is not complete because it fails to take into account that tinnitus can also be the result of hearing sounds that do exist, although not necessarily in the environment but rather in the body of itself. There are two different types of tinnitus, objective and subjective tinnitus. Pulsatile tinnitus, also known as objective tinnitus, is when others can hear the sound and the sound is inside the patient.
Subjective tinnitus is described as when the sound is only audible to the patient.
No computer equipment of any kind can detect the sound. There are also two degrees of tinnitus, normal and significant. Normal tinnitus, whether subjective or objective, causes the patient little discomfort. Significant tinnitus is noticeable enough to interfere with the patient s normal life. These noises that are heard by patient of tinnitus are generally reported as a ringing sound.