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parosmias

parosmias is the plural of parosmia.

Meaning of parosmia

Noun

parosmia (countable and uncountable, plural parosmias)

  1. A distorted sense of smell, often resulting in the apparent detection of non-existent smells which are mostly unpleasant.
    • Parosmis, from παρα, "male [Latin: ‘badly; wrongly’]," and ὄζω, "oleo, olfacio;" analogously with paracusis and paropsis, and hence preferred to parosmia. The common term among nosologists is anosmia, but this only includes one species of the genus, namely, privation or destitution of smell; which...1817, John Mason Good, “Gen[us] III. Parosmis.”, in A Physiological System of Nosology; […], London: […] Bensley and Son, […], for E. Cox and Son, […], →OCLC, page 320
    Synonyms:
    parosmis, troposmia

Questions about parosmias

What is parosmias the plural of?
Parosmias is the plural of parosmia.

Words near parosmias in the dictionary

  1. parorchis
  2. parore
  3. parorexia
  4. Paros
  5. parosmia
  6. parosmias
  7. parosmic
  8. parosmis
  9. parosteal
  10. parostoses
  11. parostosis

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