Tag: Anosmia

This chapter deals only with the total loss of smell. Are excluded hyposmia (decrease) cacosmia (perception of an unpleasant odor from the subject himself), parosmia (erroneous olfactory sensation) and phantosmia (olfactory hallucination). Smell of modern man is in decline (microsmatique animal) and its loss is not without consequence. In people anosmic the risk of domestic…