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Many of our patients with head and neck cancer are treated with radiation that destroys or at least severely impairs the salivary glands. Additionally, many are also treated with chemotherapy which affects their taste buds. Food is often bland or worse yet, foul-tasting to these individuals, and we use the term "Dysgeusia" to describe it. I'd be interested to know if the word "disgusting" is related to it.
On a similar note, I just returned from a brief trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and can say with conviction that "Gatlinburgian" should make an excellent synonym for "tasteless."
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Dear Alex: interesting question about dysgeusia vs disgusting.
One is from Greek, the other from Latin. I guess it might take a real language scholar to discuss it adequately.
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and should I chew when I sniff the cork?
Hi Jackie!
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I am completely ignorant about wine. I think it likely that sniffing the cork just won't have same effect as having aroma in both mouth and nasopharynx. Otherwise you could save a lot of money by saving old corks to sniff while drinking Brand X wine.
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enthusiast
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It will probably confuse people when she says "I'm anosmic"
Suggest that she try the more colloquial "anosemic", instead.
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