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dysgeusia

noun/dɪsˈɡjuːzɪə/

C2CEFR level
96/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A distortion or alteration of the sense of taste.

Chemotherapy left him with a metallic dysgeusia that blunted his appetite.

Topic: ENT in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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