Word: tick-tock
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...noisier head noise under observation at Hines Hospital, run by the U. S. Veterans Administration in Proviso Township, near Chicago. Charles Hester had complained of a ticking in his head, and doctors could actually hear the ticking by cupping their ears a few inches away. It had bothered him intermittently ever since a shell exploded near him in the War. Colonel Hugh Scott, chief of the hospital staff, diagnosed as follows: "The tick-tock is caused when he moves a certain muscle in his palate. The movement of the palatal muscle carries the sound through the Eustachian tube...