Tinnitus

I read this this morning and was struck at the resonance between this word and yesterday's word of the day.  So, here it is, (I promise this won't be an everyday occurence) today's word of the day, tinnitus, as defined by Jerome Groopman in The New Yorker: 

"Tinnitus -- the false perception of sound in the absence of an acoustic stimulus, a phantom noise . . . "