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	Sara Penn, Psy 440 Research 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Anosmia is a condition in which although there are mild cases, more serious cases do exist which may jeopardize the victim's life.
		While age plays a role in anosmia it is also normal to notice a lack of smell due to a cold, allergies, or other minor viral infections.
		Anosmia is a difficult disorder to treat due to the lack of informative research.
	hubel.sfasu.edu /courseinfo/SL02/anosmia.htm (1554 words)

	Anosmia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The disorder is anosmia, the loss of the sense of smell, usually from a sinus infection or a nasal obstruction, which lasts only temporarily.
		Anosmia is also known as a permanent condition commonly resulting from a head injury or disease, such as airopic rhinitis or chronic rhititus associated with granulomatous disease, which destroys either the olfactory nerve.
		Age-related anosmia is usually due to degeneration of the gloneruli and olfactory bulb (Schiffman, 97).
	hubel.sfasu.edu /courseinfo/SL99/anosmia.html (1694 words)

	Anosmia: Encyclopedia of Medicine
		The term anosmia means lack of the sense of smell.
		Patients who actually have anosmia may complain wrongly of ageusia, although they retain the ability to distinguish salt, sweet, sour, and bitter—humans' only taste sensations.
		The most common cause of anosmia is nasal occlusion caused by rhinitis (inflammation of the nasal membranes).
	health.enotes.com /medicine-encyclopedia/anosmia (574 words)

	Anosmia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anosmia is the lack of olfaction, or a loss of the sense of smell.
		This is not always the case - esthesioneuroblastoma is a cancerous tumor originating in or near the olfactory nerve.
		Symptoms are anosmia (loss of sense of smell) often accompanied by chronic sinusitus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anosmia (753 words)

	Anosmia - anosmia causes
		Anosmia is the lack of anosmia specialists olfaction, or a loss of the sense of smell.
		Anosmia can be diagnosed by anosmia causes doctors by using scratch-n-sniff odor tests or by using commonly available odors such anosmia treatment as coffee, lemon, and cinnamon.
		anosmia formaldehyde In contrast, a permanent loss of smell may be caused by death of olfactory receptor neurons in the nose, or by brain injury in which there is damage to the olfactory nerve or damage anosmia to brain areas that process smell (see olfactory system).
	www.medicalgeo.com /Med-Diseases-Am---As/Anosmia.html (427 words)

	Anosmia
		The etiology of the anosmia is most commonly due to shearing of the olfactory filaments at the cribriform plate as a result of Coup and Contracoup forces.
		Anosmia secondary to cerebral hemorrhage, hematoma, inflammation, or from blockage of the nasal passages has a fair chance of a complete to partial return of olfaction.
		Anosmia secondary to chronic sinus disease has been shown to be responsive to steroid therapy as the reduction in mucosal edema increases the inspiratory intranasal air flow.
	www.bcm.edu /oto/grand/91594.html (2357 words)

	Allergy & Asthma Disease Management Center: Ask the Expert: Anosmia
		In most of the other cases of persistent anosmia, there is evidence of damage to the olfactory epithelium with associated failure to regrow damaged nerve endings.
		Anosmia is a complex disorder in which there can be one or more of a number of etiologic factors.
		Anosmia associated with other nasal inflammatory conditions is also frequently decreased by steroid treatment.
	www.aaaai.org /aadmc/ate/anosmia.html (764 words)

	What is Anosmia? - Online Lawyer Source
		Anosmia is the loss of smell, a disorder that affects not just smell, but also taste.
		Anosmia can greatly affect a person’s life because smell is tied to so many other things, such as determining the flavor of foods and beverages that people eat and drink.
		While the FDA continues to say they are evaluating anosmia reported related to zinc nasal sprays, the consumers who thought they would shorten the duration of their cold for a few days and wound up permanently without a sense of smell and taste possibly because of the zinc nasal sprays thinks more answers are needed.
	www.onlinelawyersource.com /cold-eeze/anosmia.html (544 words)

	KALLMANN'S SYNDROME MEDSTUDENTS-ENDOCRINOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kallmann first reported the familial nature of eunuchoidism with anosmia in a description of three families, suggesting a genetic etiology, but the first definitive evidence of a defect in of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis came with the development of assays for urinary gonadotropins.
		Anosmia or hyposmia is present in 80% of the patients and establishes the diagnosis of the syndrome in individuals with isolated gonadotropin deficiency.
		Once hypogonadotropic hypogonadism is established, the positive famial history and the presence of anosmia or associated abnormalities strongly suggests the diagnosis of the syndrome, IHH remains a diagnosis of exclusion.
	www.medstudents.com.br /endoc/endoc1.htm (999 words)

	bookofjoe: BehindTheMedspeak: Anosmia
		Anosmia, the medical term for the condition, is almost impossible to treat.
		Kimmelman said that most anosmia patients recover only 20 to 30 percent of their sensory function, and that there is little doctors can do about it.
		Anosmia may be caused not only by head trauma but also by upper respiratory infection, nasal or sinus disease and exposure to toxins.
	www.bookofjoe.com /2005/05/behindthemedspe_18.html (1408 words)

	The Simian Line: Anosmia Facts
		In a small sample of women with congenital anosmia, nausea and vomiting of pregnancy occurred in only one pregnancy, suggesting that olfaction is a highly selected trigger for nausea and vomiting of pregnancy.
		The ability of 24-hour-old lambs to discriminate between their own mother and an alien mother—that were either nonanosmic and accepting only their own lamb at nursing or anosmic and indiscriminately nursing alien lambs as well as their own—was assessed by a 5-minute, two-choice test.
		It was shown that long-time anosmia increased the level of exploratory and locomotor activities in male rats and changed their behavior in stress situations from passive to active form.
	www.jenniferboyer.com /AnosmiaFacts1.htm (7828 words)

	AN ANOSMIA-HYPEROSMIA CASE WITH HYPOGEUSIA, FROM PROBABLE STRESS,IMPROVED FOLLOWING AN ANTISTRESS DRUG THERAPY
		Because the classification is based on the diagnosis of the different causes of anosmia, it implicitly includes etiological and topographic considerations.
		The loss of smell is sudden and anosmia is often accompanied by troublesome parosmias (50%).
		In a patient, anosmia was still present 13 months after the discontinuation of the alpha interferon.
	www.stress-cocchi.net /Other1.htm (3425 words)

	Smelling disorders
		For example, anosmia, the loss of the sense of smell, is often a temporary symptom of a cold or flu.
		Anosmia occurs in about 10% of head trauma injuries, and head trauma is a leading cause of anosmia in young adults.
		If anosmia is related to excessive use of nasal decongestants, a person should discontinue use of those medications.
	www.lifesteps.com /gm/Atoz/ency/smelling_disorders.jsp (2416 words)

	Anosmia Zicam Side Effect Lawyer
		Anosmia is the loss of the sense of smell.
		Anosmia may be temporary or permanent and can be caused by brain and or head injuries, illness and chemical exposure.
		Dysosmia is an impairment of the sense of smell.
	www.yourlawyer.com /topics/overview/Anosmia (692 words)

	Zinc and Anosmia
		My initial reaction to the distressed correspondent was to suggest that his anosmia may have been produced by the infection for which he was using the intranasal zinc gel.
		One technique which has been employed to produce anosmia in an experimental animal is olfactory bulbectomy, that is, destruction of the olfactory bulb in the brain of the experimental animal.
		If it can, it clearly is a problem only for a very small minority of individuals, those who are at risk because of some unknown factor or factors (such as, for example, the morphology of their nose contributing to the solution reaching and staying on the olfactory receptors high in the nasal chamber).
	personal.ecu.edu /wuenschk/Zinc.htm (2438 words)

	Medical Dictionary: Anosmia - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Anosmia: absence of the sense of smell (as by damage to olfactory nasal tissue or the olfactory nerve or by obstruction of the nasal passages)
		Anosmia : absence of the sense of smell.
		Anosmia (symptom): A loss of or lack of a sense of smell.
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical/anosmia.htm (209 words)

	The Congenital Anosmia Pages
		Anosmia is the absence of the sense of smell.
		Anosmia associated with an injury involves either a problem with the nose, which can usually be corrected with surgery, a problem with the brain, which I believe is untreatable, or a problem with the olfactory nerve, which may recover, or may not.
		Viral anosmia sometimes recovers spontaneously, and the DC clinic has also had success--of course, it could always be argued that their patients would have recovered anyway.
	www.maxuk.net /nose.shtml (21750 words)

	content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This is a term that Leopold devised from the prefix "trop" meaning to turn or react, and "-osmia" meaning sense of smell.
		It is generally accepted that MRI scans are the radiological study of choice especially in the workup of anosmia (Archer 2000).
		The cause of his anosmia was unclear although he did suffer from nasal polyps and so was prescribed a 10mg dose of prednisone to be taken daily.
	www.cf.ac.uk /biosi/staff/jacob/Anosmia/content.html (6212 words)

	Preventing Anosmia from Intranasal Zinc Administration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Anosmia may be temporary resulting, for example, from an obstructive respiratory infection or a blow on the head which may damage the olfactory receptors, or be permanent as a result of an irreversible damage to any part of the olfactory apparatus.
		Sometimes anosmia (the so called specific anosmias) does not involve a total loss or reduction of the sense of smell but is instead specific to particular substances; for example, 3% of the population has trouble smelling the odor of sweat, 12% have diminished sensitivity to musky odors.
		Anosmia in children and animals seems reversible within several weeks in most cases, treated or not, but there is concern that anosmia induced by intranasal zinc in adults may become persistent and perhaps permanent.
	coldcure.com /anosmia/anosmia.html (4420 words)

	Viral Anosmia
		Viral anosmia is a total lack of olfaction caused by an upper respiratory infection (URI) virus destroying the cells of the olfactory epithelium through a process known as necrosis.
		Your doctor may describe this condition as idiopathic anosmia (or anosmia with no known cause) - however, this may still be a case of viral anosmia.
		It appears that viral anosmia is a matter of bad luck: the virus cells match an individual's olfactory receptor cells in very few cases.
	personal.ecu.edu /wuenschk/ViralMick.htm (2240 words)

	Assessing the Impact of Anosmia: Review of a Questionnaire's Findings -- Toller 24 (6): 705 -- Chemical Senses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		of their anosmia was sudden and 37% that the onset was slow.
		Ogle, W. Anosmia: or cases illustrating th physiology and pathology of the sense of smell.
		Varney, N.R. The prognostic significance of anosmia in patients with closed-head trauma.
	chemse.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/24/6/705 (5103 words)

	Is imaging necessary in the evaluation of the patient with an isolated complaint of anosmia? - Original Article Ear, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The true incidence of anosmia is difficult to determine, although the National Institutes of Health have estimated that more than 2 million persons in the United States have a smell dysfunction.
		The diagnosis of anosmia was based solely on each patient's complaint and was not verified or investigated further by specific olfactory function testing.
		The duration of anosmia symptoms among the 28 patients ranged from 1 month to 2 years (median: 3 mo) (table 1).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0BUM/is_12_80/ai_81217973 (955 words)

	Anosmia definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		Anosmia: No sense of smell, due to loss of the sense of smell or failure for it to develop.
		Loss of the sense of smell can be due to a number of things including swelling within the nose that prevents odors from gaining access to the olfactory (smell) area.
		Most people with anosmia have normal perception of salty, sweet, sour, and bitter substances but they lack flavor discrimination, which is largely dependent on olfaction (smell).
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2270 (209 words)

	Anosmia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Anosmia: La carencia del sentido del olfato, como también la disminución a la apreciación del olor.
		Los enfermos que padecen de anosmia, pueden quejarse de ageusia, aunque conservan alguna sensación del gusto, pero pierden otras.
		Es el caso, por ejemplo, del epitelio olfatorio, donde se produce una génesis de neuronas olfatorias a partir de precursores presentes en las capas básales del epitelio, que además son capaces de crecer su axón para reconectarse, en el bulbo olfatorio, con las neuronas de segundo orden de la vía olfatoria.
	html.rincondelvago.com /anosmia.html (500 words)

	Anosmia Foundation
		The Anosmia Foundation, a nonprofit organization, was incorporated on July 20, 2001.
		Lisa Vatch, B.A., LL.B., LL.M., is the Founder and Director of the Anosmia Foundation.
		The Anosmia Foundation carries on its operations without pecuniary gain to its directors or members, and any profits or other accretions are to be used in promoting its goals.
	www.anosmiafoundation.org /details.shtml (169 words)

	Anosmia
		404 Anosmia from Intranasal Zinc Administration - Discusses evidence that new homeopathic nasal congestion remedies containing zinc compounds such as oxymetazoline are associated with a risk of permanent loss of the sense of smell in adults.
		Anosmia Pages - Anosmia information and personal experiences of having no sense of smell from birth (congenital anosmia).
		Yahoo Groups: Anosmia - Active discussion group covering all anosmia topics.
	www.gourt.com /Health/Senses/Smell-and-Taste/Anosmia.html (355 words)

	Smelling Disorders \| AHealthyMe.com
		These nasal dysfunctions range from the total loss of smell (anosmia) to dysosmia, a distorted sense of smell.
		This is usually a temporary condition that a person may experience after a case of acute influenza.
		Temporary partial anosmia often occurs when a person has a cold, the flu, or some types of rhinitis, especially hay fever (allergic rhinitis).
	www.ahealthyme.com /topic/topic103549713 (2300 words)

	Anosmia in dementia is associated with Lewy bodies rather than Alzheimer's pathology -- McShane et al. 70 (6): 739 -- ...
		Anosmia in dementia is associated with Lewy bodies rather than Alzheimer's pathology -- McShane et al.
		Anosmia in dementia is associated with Lewy bodies rather than Alzheimer's pathology
		Analyses of the diagnostic utility of anosmia drew on
	jnnp.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/70/6/739 (3183 words)

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