{"id":28079,"date":"2020-03-24T19:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T00:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28079"},"modified":"2020-03-24T19:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T00:22:53","slug":"word-of-the-day-548","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/24\/word-of-the-day-548\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Anosmia<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The term anosmia means lack of the sense of smell. It may also refer to a decreased sense of smell. Ageusia, a companion word, refers to a lack of taste sensation. Patients who actually have anosmia may complain wrongly of ageusia, although they retain the ability to distinguish salt, sweet, sour, and bitter\u2014humans&#8217; only taste sensations.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com\/anosmia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Free Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2020\/03\/23\/coronavirus-sense-of-smell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Losing sense of smell may be a hidden symptom of coronavirus, doctors warn<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Michael Brice-Saddler, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md \">But a team of British ear, nose and throat doctors on Friday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.entuk.org\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/Loss%20of%20sense%20of%20smell%20as%20marker%20of%20COVID.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised the possibility\u00a0<\/a>of a new indicator of the\u00a0<a class=\"contextual_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2020\/02\/28\/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus\/?tid=lk_inline_manual_4&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coronavirus<\/a>, one they say has been observed globally, even in patients who are otherwise asymptomatic: anosmia, a condition that causes the loss of sense of smell. In a statement, they warned that adults experiencing recent anosmia could be unknown carriers of covid-19, and urged them to consider self-isolation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anosmia: The term anosmia means lack of the sense of smell. It may also refer to a decreased sense of smell. Ageusia, a companion word, refers to a lack of taste sensation. Patients who actually have anosmia may complain wrongly of ageusia, although they retain the ability to distinguish salt, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/03\/24\/word-of-the-day-548\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28080,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28079\/revisions\/28080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}