Anosmia Definition

ăn-ŏzmē-ə
noun
Total or partial loss of the sense of smell.
Webster's New World
Loss of the sense of smell.
American Heritage Medicine

Inability to smell; the inability to perceive odors.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Anosmia

Noun

Singular:
anosmia
Plural:
anosmias

Origin of Anosmia

  • From New Latin anosmia, based on Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-) + ὀσμή (osmē, “smell”).

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin Greek an- without a–1 Greek osmē odor

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Anosmia Sentence Examples

  • Kallman's syndrome is a disorder of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, delayed puberty, and anosmia (the inability to smell).

  • Anosmia, the inability to smell, was first described with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in 1856, but it was not until 1944 that an instance of Kallman's reported the inheritance of the two symptoms together in three separate families.

  • Hence, the syndrome of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia was named Kallman's syndrome (KS).

  • The most common features are HH and anosmia, though a wide range of features can present in an affected person.

  • Kallman's syndrome-A disorder of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism, delayed puberty, and anosmia.

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