Usage Note
Riechschleimhaut is the specialised tissue lining the roof of the nasal cavity containing olfactory receptor cells. Its damage from viruses, trauma, or toxins causes anosmia; this became common vocabulary during the COVID pandemic.
Examples
"Viren können die Riechschleimhaut angreifen und den Geruchssinn vorübergehend ausschalten."
Natural Translation
Viruses can attack the olfactory mucosa and temporarily disable the sense of smell.
Literal Translation
Viruses can the olfactory-mucosa attack and the smell-sense temporarily switch-off.
Related Words
- Akkommodation accommodation (focusing adjustment of the eye lens)
- Anosmie anosmia, loss of smell
- Blick look
- Bogengang semicircular canal (inner ear)
- Brennen burning sensation
- Dunkeladaptation dark adaptation (eye adjustment from light to darkness)
- Dämmerungssehen twilight vision, scotopic vision
- Eigengeruch body odour; characteristic personal scent
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