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Definition of Hyposmia
1. Noun. Lessened sensitivity to odors.
Definition of Hyposmia
1. Noun. A reduced ability to smell and to detect odours. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Hyposmia
1. Diminished sense of smell. Synonym: hyposphresia, olfactory hypesthesia. Origin: hypo-+ G. Osme, smell (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyposmia
Literary usage of Hyposmia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diseases of the Nose, Mouth, Pharynx and Larynx: A Textbook for Students by Alfred Bruck (1910)
"(1) Respiratory hyposmia is produced by the odourous substances not being ...
(2) Local causes of hyposmia are diseases of the regio olfactoria and of the ..."
2. Diseases of the Nose, Throat and Ear, Medical and Surgical: Medical and Surgical by William Lincoln Ballenger (1911)
"hyposmia.—hyposmia is characterized by a partial loss of smell, either from an
impairment of the mucous membrane of the attic of the nose, the nerve endings ..."
3. Diseases of the Nervous System by Archibald Church, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"... manner of testing the sense of smell, physiologic hyposmia, ... a derangement
of the sense of smell which is usually associated with simple hyposmia. ..."
4. A Text-book on Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat by Charles Henry Burnett (1901)
"hyposmia is diminution, anosmia, absence of the sense of smell. Anosmia and
hyposmia are subdivided into respiratory, essential, and central, according to ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(6) Anomalies of Olfactory Sense The anomalies of the sense of smell are expressed
by the terms hyper^ osmia, hyposmia, anosmia and parosmia, similar to the ..."
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