hypergeusia

{{Short description|Taste disorder}}

Hypergeusia is a taste disorder where the sense is abnormally heightened.{{cite web |url=http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?hypergeusia |title=Definition: hypergeusia from Online Medical Dictionary }}{{cite web |url=http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands_split.jsp?pg=/ppdocs/us/common/dorlands/dorland/nine/14816720.htm |title=Dorlands Medical Dictionary:hypergeusia }}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} It can be associated with a lesion of the posterior fossa and Addison's disease; where a patient will crave for salty and sour taste due to the abnormal loss of ions with urine.{{cite journal |vauthors=Noda S, Hiromatsu K, Umezaki H, Yoneda S |title=Hypergeusia as the presenting symptom of a posterior fossa lesion |journal=J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry |volume=52 |issue=6 |pages=804–5 |date=June 1989 |pmid=2545829 |pmc=1032046 |doi= 10.1136/jnnp.52.6.804-a}}