Conveying a sense of taste or relating to the action or experience of tasting something: Madison and his family were enjoying their gustatory meal as they celebrated his birthday. © ALL rights are reserved.

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A type of aura which shows itself in the form of a gustatory hallucination or illusion.

Gustatory aura is associated primarily with paroxysmal neurological disorders; such as, epilepsy and migraine.

1. The distortion of the sense of taste.
2. The abnormal or impaired functioning of the sense of tasting.

1. A false tase sensation of either food or beverage on the mucous membrane lining the empty mouth.
2. A reference to a taste sensation occurring in the absence of proper taste receptors.

Gustatory hallucinations tend to last over a period of time as unpleasant taste sensations of bitter, sour, sweet, disgusting, etc.

An oversensitivity of taste: If a cook has gustatory hyperesthesia, it may impede his or her success as a chef because that person needs to be able to taste the food for the correct amount of seasoning.

An aberrant taste sensation; such as, dysgeusia (abnormal or impaired sense of taste), hypergeusia (abnormally sharp or acute sense of taste), and parageusia (disordered, hallucinatory, or abnormal sense of taste); also classified as a "chemosensory disorder".

The external openings of taste buds on the tongue.