自じ己こ臭しゅう症しょう

noun

olfactory reference syndrome; bromidrosis; body odor concern

A condition where a person is preoccupied with the belief that they emit an offensive body odor, often without objective evidence. The term can refer to both the psychological preoccupation and the actual medical condition of excessive body odor.

• 自じ己こ臭しゅう症しょうの患かん者じゃは、実じっ際さいには体たい臭しゅうがなくても強つよい不ふ安あんを感かんじることがある。

  Patients with olfactory reference syndrome may feel intense anxiety even when there is no actual body odor.

• 自じ己こ臭しゅう症しょうは、精せい神しん科かや皮ひ膚ふ科かで相そう談だんされることがある症しょう状じょうです。

  Olfactory reference syndrome is a condition that may be consulted about in psychiatry or dermatology.