ANOSMIA

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ANOSMIA - lack of smell. It can be caused by the damage to receptors and the conductive pathways of the olfactory analyzer in the oasis, chronic purulent sinusitis, neuritis of the olfactory nerve of an infectious origin, poisoning with nicotine, morphine, atropine, abscess and brain tumor, encephalitis, fractures of the cranial base of the skull with rupture of the olfactory nerve threads, The decrease in smell (hyposmia) occurs as a result of nasal breathing disorders with such changes in the nasal cavity as curvature of the nasal septum, polyps, tumors , etc. Thus, anosmia and hyposmia are symptoms of various diseases and injuries, the differential diagnosis of which is often difficult and based On the results of a thorough clinical examination of the patient.