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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A distortion of the sense of smell, as in smelling odors that are not present.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In pathology, a perversion of the sense of smell; olfactory illusion.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A distorted sense of smell, often resulting in phantom, non-existent, and mostly unpleasant, smells.

Etymologies

  1. New Latin : par(a)-1 + Greek osmē, smell. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “Note that phantosmia is different from another disorder of sense of smell, known as parosmia, in which a smell is present in your environment but is distorted.”

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  • “When the temporal lobe seizes, as it might during an epileptic incident, the onset is frequently marked by phantom smells, a condition called phantosmia (not to be confused with parosmia in which a present smell is distorted).”

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  • “However, occasionally patients may also present with parosmia (a distortion of the sense of smell), phantosmia (smelling things that aren't there), or permanent damage of the olfactory system.”

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  • “A Practical Guide on Pharmacovigilance for Beginners parosmia, taste perversion, abnormal visual accommodation, and xerophthalmia.”

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