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dysosmia

[ dis-oz-mee-uh ]

noun

Pathology.
  1. an impairment of the sense of smell.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dysosmia1

dys- + Greek osm ( ḗ ) smell + -ia
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People with COVID-19 also get dysosmia, which is where “everything you taste tastes terrible,†said Aniruddha Hazra, assistant professor in the University of Chicago Medicine’s Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health.

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An Underrecognized Problem While reliable statistics are hard to come by, several million Americans are thought to suffer from the major smell disorders: hyposmia, a reduced ability to detect certain odors; anosmia, an inability to detect any odors at all; or dysosmia, in which pleasant odors can smell foul or vice versa.

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