Anosmia

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Anosmia is the loss of sense of smell, hyposmia is a reduced sense of smell, parosmia is an altered sense of smell, and phantosmia is when you smell things that aren't there.[1][2] A change in sense of smell may occur alongside a change in sense of taste.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 "Smell and Taste Disorders". Johns Hopkins Medicine. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  2. "Smell Disorders". NIDCD. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  3. De Becker, Pascale; McGregor, Neil; De Meirleir, Kenny (December 2001). "A definition‐based analysis of symptoms in a large cohort of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome". Journal of Internal Medicine. 250 (3): 234–240. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2796.2001.00890.x.