title: Sumner's "On testing the sense of smell" revisited.
abstract: The routine test of olfaction need not lead to an ambiguous outcome, a rather widely held notion. A multiple-choice test of odor identification that avoided the difficulty of retrieving odor names yielded excellent resolution among the categories normosmic, hyposmic, and anosmic. The outcome agreed almost perfectly with a more complicated test of threshold and offered much encouragement for the use of odor identification in rapid screening of olfaction.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D009812:Odorants; D000857:Olfaction Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology*