Crossword-Solution: ANOSMIA 7 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Anosmia, or loss of smell, is the most common disorder of olfaction; it may be caused by cortical lesions, olfactory nerve-changes, congenital absence, or over-stimulation of the nerves, or it may be a symptom of hysteria.

Ogle, after mentioning several cases of traumatic anosmia, suggests that a blow on the occiput is generally the cause.

The prognosis in traumatic anosmia is generally bad, although there is a record of a man who fell while working on a wharf, striking his head and producing anosmia with partial loss of hearing and sight, and who for several weeks neither smelt nor tasted, but gradually recovered.

There is an inseparable connection between the two senses of smell and taste, for when anosmia or loss of the sense of smell occurs, all taste, except for bitterness, sweetness, sourness, and saltness, is completely lost, so far as ideas of flavour, &c., are concerned.

CARDINAL SYMPTOMS OF NASAL AFFECTIONS: Nasal obstruction: _Erectile swelling of inferior turbinals_; _Nasal polypi_; _Malignant tumours_; _Deviations, spines, and ridges of septum_; _Hæmatoma of septum_--Nasal discharge: _Foreign bodies_; _Rhinoliths_; _Ozæna_; _Epistaxis_; _Suppuration in accessory sinuses_--Anomalies of smell and taste: _Anosmia_; _Parosmia_--Reflex symptoms of nasal origin--Post-nasal obstruction: _Adenoids_--Tumours of naso-pharynx.