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Moon incurred tinnitus following an injury to his eardrum in recent years, which impacted his ability to work.
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Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
But on a flight back home from a chess tournament, his eardrums burst, forever altering the career path that once felt like destiny.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2025
Ear Pain or Pressure A feeling of fullness in your ears, pain, or muffled hearing often means fluid has built up behind your eardrum.
—Health, 3 Dec. 2025
Others were long enough in the tooth to be trading the secondhand tales of burst eardrums and that particular Valentine-tinnitus that heads have collected like backpack patches since the band’s miracle years.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Nov. 2025
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Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
But on a flight back home from a chess tournament, his eardrums burst, forever altering the career path that once felt like destiny.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2025
Ear Pain or Pressure A feeling of fullness in your ears, pain, or muffled hearing often means fluid has built up behind your eardrum.
—Health, 3 Dec. 2025
Others were long enough in the tooth to be trading the secondhand tales of burst eardrums and that particular Valentine-tinnitus that heads have collected like backpack patches since the band’s miracle years.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Nov. 2025
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“Eardrum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eardrum. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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eardrum
noun
ear·drum
-ˌdrəm 
: the thin membrane that separates the outer and middle ear and carries sound waves as vibrations to the chain of tiny bones in the middle ear
called also tympanic membrane, tympanum
Medical Definition
eardrum
noun
ear·drum
-ˌdrəm
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