ageusian.

1817 J. M. Good Physiol. Syst. Nosol. 324 (note) The author has preferred, with Vogel, the present termination [sc. -geusis] to parageusia or ageusia.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 80/2 Increase in the sense of taste is called hypergeusia, diminution of it hypogeusia, and entire loss ageusia.

1916 A. Bassler Dis. Stomach & Upper Alimentary Tract (ed. 3) 448 Ageusia is to be expected in dryness of the mouth, such as with typhoid tongue and mouth breathing.

1967 Brain 90 197 They believe that in their cases the ageusia was due to auto-suggestion following true anosmia.

2005 Jrnl. Med. Microbiol. 54 417 A case of nuclear bilateral Bell's palsy and ageusia associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection.

1892 Merck's Bull. May 281/2 (heading) Gymnemic acid as an ageusic.

1910 Osler's Mod. Med. VII. 43 The allopsyche of an individual will depend then largely upon his sense organs;..that of the anosmic will be wholly other than that of the ageusic.

1915 C. L. Allen tr. R. Bing Textbk. Nerv. Dis. xviii. 286 There are also taste and smell agnosias, but they are so difficult to differentiate from ageusic and anosmic disturbances, and in any case so rare, that they are practically of no importance.

2005 New Scientist 24 Sept. 42/1 So as many patients do, I hit the internet. I found the names of my afflictions: I had become ageusic, lacking a sense of taste, and anosmic, lacking a sense of smell.