Tinnitus masker Tinnitus masker Tinnitus maskers are a range of devices based on simple white noise machines which are used to add natural or artificial sound into a tinnitus sufferer's environment in order to mask or cover up the ringing. The noise is supplied by a sound generator which may reside in or above the ear or be placed on a table or elsewhere in the environment. The noise is usually white noise or music, but in some cases it may be patterned sound or specially tailored sound based on the characteristics of the person's tinnitus. The perceived loudness of tinnitus, called
Body without organs gestation of a formation yet to come, and the potential formation of many actualities from a single origin. In "Anti-Oedipus" Deleuze and Guattari expand the Body without Organs image by comparing its real potentials to the egg's : The body without organs is an egg: it is crisscrossed with axes and thresholds, with latitudes and longitudes and geodesic lines, traversed by gradients marking the transitions and the becomings, the destinations of the subject developing along these particular vectors ("Capitalism and Schizophrenia", p. 19). For Deleuze and Guattari, every actual body has a limited set of traits, habits, movements, affects, etc.