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Definition of Anosmia
1. Noun. Absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages).
Definition of Anosmia
1. n. Loss of the sense of smell.
Definition of Anosmia
1. Noun. Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anosmia
1. loss of the sense of smell [n -S] : ANOSMIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Anosmia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anosmia
Literary usage of Anosmia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1870)
"The duration of anosmia varies with the cause which produces it. ... anosmia results
from atrophy of olfactory nerves, or those nerves are destroyed by a ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on the Medical & Surgical Uses of Electricity by George Miller Beard, Alphonso David Rockwell (1871)
"anosmia, or Loss of Sense of Smell.—A very frequent result of long continued
rhinitis is partial or complete anosmia. The acute form that appears in the ..."
3. A Text-book of Diseases of the Nose and Throat by Francke Huntington Bosworth (1896)
"anosmia. DISTURBANCES of the function of olfaction may manifest themselves in an
increased activity of this sense, giving rise to what is usually designated ..."
4. Medical Diagnosis: Special Diagnosis of Internal Medicine by Julius Lincoln Salinger, Wilhelm Olivier von Leube (1904)
"But a closer inspection shows at once the presence of an anosmia and not that of
an anaesthesia of taste. It may then be assumed that both halves of the ..."
5. Diseases of the Nose by Clinton Wagner (1884)
"anosmia. —The function of smell may be only slightly impaired, or altogether lost.
... We may have congenital anosmia due to absence of the olfactory nerve ..."
6. Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Throat, and Nose: A Manual for Students and by Frank Ebenezer Miller (1892)
"anosmia AND PAROSMIA. What is anosmia. anosmia is the loss of the sense of smell,
and may be present as a symptom of various affections of the nose. ..."
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