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anosmia

[ə′näz·mē·ə]
(medicine)
Absence of the sense of smell.
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Although most anosmics who are not born with the condition can pinpoint what caused the loss of their sense - perhaps through trauma to the head, a sinus infection or nasal polyps - Karen is not sure what made her lose her ability to smell.
I still wear perfume ... but I can't smell a thing; WHAT'S IT LIKE TO LIVE WITHOUT A SENSE OF SMELL? KATE SAMUELSON FINDS OUT FROM A MERSEYSIDE MUM
With a major lack of awareness on this medical condition, it largely goes unreported and thereby, there are no accurate figures on the number of anosmics in India.
WHEN YOU CAN'T GET A WHIFF OF IT
They believe that they can accurately classify people as: hyperosmic (very sensitive), hyposmic (the baseline category) and anosmic.
Use bioassay to create a standard spectrum of smell
When anosmic but otherwise intact pigeons are released in a distant but familiar location, they use landmarks to find their way home.
The role of the avian hippocampus in spatial memory. (Spatial Learning and Cognition)
l%)--experienced a clinically relevant improvement at 4 months; 1 patient in the post-URTI category improved from hyposmic to normosmic, and 1 patient in the idiopathic category improved from anosmic to hyposmic.
Active olfactory training for the treatment of smelling disorders
With the aim of making the social stress stimulus equal for all animals, social interaction involved contact with anosmic intruder subjects.
Effects of social stress on tumor development in dominant male mice with diverse behavioral activity profiles
Ability to perceive androstenone can be acquired by ostensibly anosmic people.
Symptomatic effects of exposure to diluted air sampled from a swine confinement atmosphere on healthy human subjects
size-matched anosmic opponent Stocker and Satiated male Food odor present; Size-matched Huber, 2001 crayfish Starved male Food odor present; Size-matched crayfish Zulandt et al.
Field observations of intraspecific agonistic behavior of two Crayfish species, Orconectes rusticus and Orconectes virilis, in different habitats
And although shifting their clock will cause normal birds to head off in the wrong direction, even from a familiar release site, anosmic clock-shifted birds will head off in the correct homeward direction by relying on this learned visual route (Gagliardo, Ioale & Bingman, 1999).
Do not ask whether they have a cognitive map, but how they find their way about. (Spatial Learning and Cognition)
They can be hyperosmic (very sensitive), hyposmic (the baseline category) and anosmic.
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