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Descriptor English: Dysgeusia
Descriptor Spanish: Disgeusia
Descriptor disgeusia
Entry term(s) deformación del sabor
distorsión del sentido del gusto
parageusia
Scope note: Afección caracterizada por alteraciones en el sentido del gusto que puede oscilar de leve a grave, con distorsiones de importancia de la calidad del gusto.
Descriptor Portuguese: Disgeusia
Descriptor French: Dysgueusie
Entry term(s): Altered Taste
Distorted Taste
Dysgeusias
Parageusia
Parageusias
Taste, Altered
Taste, Distorted
Tree number(s): C10.597.751.861.479
C23.888.592.763.861.479
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004408
Scope note: A condition characterized by alterations of the sense of taste which may range from mild to severe, including gross distortions of taste quality.
Annotation: do not confuse with AGEUSIA, loss of sense of taste
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 1991; see TASTE DISORDERS 1975-1990
History Note: 1991(1975)
DeCS ID: 4471
Unique ID: D004408
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/05/21
Dysgeusia - Preferred
Concept UI M0006919
Scope note A condition characterized by alterations of the sense of taste which may range from mild to severe, including gross distortions of taste quality.
Preferred term Dysgeusia
Entry term(s) Distorted Taste
Dysgeusias
Taste, Distorted
Taste, Altered - Narrower
Concept UI M0336586
Preferred term Taste, Altered
Entry term(s) Altered Taste
Parageusia
Parageusias



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