Tinnitus examination by an ENT to diagnose treatable conditions like middle ear infection, acoustic neuroma, concussion, otosclerosis, etc. Evaluation of tinnitus will include a hearing test (audiogram), measurement of acoustic parameters of the tinnitus like pitch and loudness, and psychological assessment of comorbid conditions like depression, anxiety, and stress that are associated with severity of the tinnitus. The accepted definition of chronic tinnitus, as compared to normal ear noise experience, is five minutes of ear noise occurring at least twice a week. However, people with chronic tinnitus often experience the noise more frequently than this and can experience it continuously or
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.