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Anosmia

//æˈnɑːzmiːə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors. countable, uncountable

    "Often accompanied by an inability to taste, anosmia occurs abruptly and dramatically in these patients, almost as if a switch had been flipped."

  2. 2
    absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages) wordnet

Etymology

From New Latin anosmia, equivalent to an- + -osmi.

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