Anosmia is inability to perceive odour. Anosmia may be permanent or it may be affected temporarily according to the disease. Hyperosmia is the term used for increased ability to smell and another medical term is hyposmia which is used to indicate the decreased ability to smell. Specific Anosmic is the term used for people who are unable to smell for one particular odour.
Anosmia occurs in the following medical conditions.
1. Nasal infections (discharge, fever, headache)
2. Myxoedema (fatigue, dry skin, cold intolerance)
3. Frontal bone tumour (amnesia, fits, aphasia)
4. Brain abscess (preceding infection, neurological …

Infection, followed by inflammation of the sinuses may cause a pressure on the eyes, nose, cheek and head with head ache. The human skull is having four pairs of sinuses and they are frontal, maxillary, ethmoid and sphenoid. The sinusitis may be acute or chronic in its nature. The inflammation of these sinuses may accompany head ache, fever, cough, congested nose and heavy nasal discharges. The sinuses are having hairy parts on their surfaces called as cilia as defensive and the immune system of the sinuses protect the parts of …