Anosmic


absence or loss of the sense of smell.
noun
(pathol) loss of the sense of smell, usually as the result of a lesion of the olfactory nerve, disease in another organ or part, or obstruction of the nasal p-ssages
n.

“loss of sense of smell,” 1811, modern latin, from greek an-, privative prefix (see an- (1)), + osme “smell” (doric odme), from -odsme, cognate with latin odor (see odor).

anosmia an·os·mi·a (ān-ŏz’mē-ə)
n.
loss of the sense of smell. also called olfactory anesthesia.
an·os’mic adj.

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