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Hypergeusia is a taste disorder where the sense is abnormally heightened. 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.

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Hypergeusia is a taste disorder where the sense is abnormally heightened. 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.

Hypergeusia is the proposed term for Supertaster in scholarly literature.

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