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Anosmia, also known as smell blindness, is the loss of the ability to detect one or more smells. [1] [2] Anosmia may be temporary or permanent. [3]It differs from hyposmia, which is a decreased sensitivity to some or all smells.
Nasal polyps ( NP) are noncancerous growths within the nose or sinuses. [ 1] Symptoms include trouble breathing through the nose, loss of smell, decreased taste, post nasal drip, and a runny nose. [ 1] The growths are sac-like, movable, and nontender, though face pain may occasionally occur. [ 1] They typically occur in both nostrils in those ...
Otic polyp. Other names. Aural polyp. An intermediate magnification of a H&E stained biopsy from an otic polyp. Specialty. ENT surgery. An otic polyp is a benign proliferation of chronic inflammatory cells associated with granulation tissue, in response to a longstanding inflammatory process of the middle ear. [ 1][ 2]
But if the bad smell in your nose has been hanging around for over a month, is getting worse, or is associated with red flag symptoms like fever or whole body chills, severe facial swelling or ...
Chronic atrophic rhinitis, or simply atrophic rhinitis, is a chronic inflammation of the nose characterised by atrophy of nasal mucosa, including the glands, turbinate bones and the nerve elements supplying the nose. Chronic atrophic rhinitis may be primary and secondary. Special forms of chronic atrophic rhinitis are rhinitis sicca anterior ...
Hyposmia, or microsmia, [ 1] is a reduced ability to smell and to detect odors. A related condition is anosmia, in which no odors can be detected. Some of the causes of olfaction problems are allergies, nasal polyps, viral infections and head trauma. In 2012 an estimated 9.8 million people aged 40 and older in the United States had hyposmia and ...
Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD), also called NSAID-exacerbated respiratory disease (N-ERD) or historically aspirin-induced asthma and Samter's Triad, is a long-term disease defined by three simultaneous symptoms: asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, and intolerance of aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).
Dysosmia is a disorder described as any qualitative alteration or distortion of the perception of smell. [ 1] Qualitative alterations differ from quantitative alterations, which include anosmia and hyposmia. [ 2] Dysosmia can be classified as either parosmia (also called troposmia) or phantosmia. Parosmia is a distortion in the perception of an ...