Olfactory
adjective
Related to the sense of smell.
The olfactory system plays a critical role in taste.
Often appears as...
- olfactory nerves
- olfactory system
noun
Part of the brain that controls the sense of smell.
Damage to the olfactory can hinder a person's ability to smell.
Often appears as...
- olfactory nerve
- olfactory sense
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
adjective
Related to the sense of smell.
The olfactory system plays a critical role in taste.
Often appears as...
- olfactory nerves
- olfactory system
noun
Part of the brain that controls the sense of smell.
Damage to the olfactory can hinder a person's ability to smell.
Often appears as...
- olfactory nerve
- olfactory sense
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Common Parings
Used with words like 'nerves,' 'system,' and 'stimuli' to discuss the biological aspects of smell.
Scientists study the olfactory nerves to understand how we detect odors.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Focus
Specifically refers to smell, not other senses like sight or hearing.
The olfactory experience of a flower garden can be as impactful as its visual beauty.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Clarity
Often appears in discussions about sensory perception, not general smell references.
Perfumers have an acute olfactory sensitivity, crucial for their work.
Pro Tip 1/3Common Parings
Used with words like 'nerves,' 'system,' and 'stimuli' to discuss the biological aspects of smell.
Scientists study the olfactory nerves to understand how we detect odors.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Focus
Specifically refers to smell, not other senses like sight or hearing.
The olfactory experience of a flower garden can be as impactful as its visual beauty.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Clarity
Often appears in discussions about sensory perception, not general smell references.
Perfumers have an acute olfactory sensitivity, crucial for their work.
Pro Tip 1/3Common Parings
Used with words like 'nerves,' 'system,' and 'stimuli' to discuss the biological aspects of smell.
Scientists study the olfactory nerves to understand how we detect odors.
Pro Tip 2/3Sensory Focus
Specifically refers to smell, not other senses like sight or hearing.
The olfactory experience of a flower garden can be as impactful as its visual beauty.
Pro Tip 3/3Contextual Clarity
Often appears in discussions about sensory perception, not general smell references.
Perfumers have an acute olfactory sensitivity, crucial for their work.
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Video examples
How do we smell? - Rose...
takes a direct route to these different regions of the brain, where it can trigger your fight-or-flight response, help you recall memories, or make your mouth water. But even though we've all got the same physiological set-up, two nostrils and millions of olfactory neurons, not everybody smells the same things. One of the most famous examples of this
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Why the insect brain is...
there are some striking similarities. For example, most insects have smell detectors on their antennae, similar to those found in human noses. And our primary olfactory brain regions look and function rather similarly, with clusters of neurons activated and deactivated in precise timing
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The Wonders of Urban...
that lives in sub-saharan africa african pouched rats are among the world's largest rodents they can grow as long as 35 inches including the tail and they have a superpower that could save people's lives they do they have an amazing census mail great olfactory sense and that great old
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Robin Ince: Science...
matched our olfactory receptors." Though I'll probably also say something about her hair and personality as well. And that is a wonderful thing there. Love does not die because of that thing. Pain doesn't go away either. This is a terrible thing, even though I understand pain.
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How do dogs "see" with...
and allow odor concentration to build up over mulitple sniffs. But all that impressive nasal architecture wouldn't be much help without something to process the loads of information the nose scoops up. And it turns out that the olfactory system dedicated to proessing smells
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Big Cats Wild for Calvin...
man-made and natural scents are used as olfactory enrichment tools at the zoo the scents are sprayed inside animals enclosures to keep the animals active and engaged both for their mental and physical well-being and for the viewing
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Could your brain repair...
the subventricular zone, which may supply neurons to the olfactory bulb for communication between the nose and brain, and the striatum, which helps manage movement. Scientists don't yet have a good grasp on exactly what role
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Amelia Earhart Part I:...
long career as an archaeologist tom took the search for amelia one step further by enlisting the help of bone-sniffing dogs we humans with our defective eyesight and our even more defective olfactory abilities
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You smell with your...
I like this example because it clearly demonstrates that an olfactory receptor's primary job is to be a chemical sensor, but depending on the context, it can influence how you perceive a smell,
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Safari Live - Day 333 PIPE...
olfactory cues scent-marking calling kangana sauce lion's roar obviously they completely have different lifestyles and I just think that's indeed very very fascinating leopards
Video examples
How do we smell? - Rose...
takes a direct route to these different regions of the brain, where it can trigger your fight-or-flight response, help you recall memories, or make your mouth water. But even though we've all got the same physiological set-up, two nostrils and millions of olfactory neurons, not everybody smells the same things. One of the most famous examples of this
Video examples
Why the insect brain is...
there are some striking similarities. For example, most insects have smell detectors on their antennae, similar to those found in human noses. And our primary olfactory brain regions look and function rather similarly, with clusters of neurons activated and deactivated in precise timing
Video examples
The Wonders of Urban...
that lives in sub-saharan africa african pouched rats are among the world's largest rodents they can grow as long as 35 inches including the tail and they have a superpower that could save people's lives they do they have an amazing census mail great olfactory sense and that great old
Video examples
Robin Ince: Science...
matched our olfactory receptors." Though I'll probably also say something about her hair and personality as well. And that is a wonderful thing there. Love does not die because of that thing. Pain doesn't go away either. This is a terrible thing, even though I understand pain.
Video examples
How do dogs "see" with...
and allow odor concentration to build up over mulitple sniffs. But all that impressive nasal architecture wouldn't be much help without something to process the loads of information the nose scoops up. And it turns out that the olfactory system dedicated to proessing smells
Video examples
Big Cats Wild for Calvin...
man-made and natural scents are used as olfactory enrichment tools at the zoo the scents are sprayed inside animals enclosures to keep the animals active and engaged both for their mental and physical well-being and for the viewing
Video examples
Could your brain repair...
the subventricular zone, which may supply neurons to the olfactory bulb for communication between the nose and brain, and the striatum, which helps manage movement. Scientists don't yet have a good grasp on exactly what role
Video examples
Amelia Earhart Part I:...
long career as an archaeologist tom took the search for amelia one step further by enlisting the help of bone-sniffing dogs we humans with our defective eyesight and our even more defective olfactory abilities
Video examples
You smell with your...
I like this example because it clearly demonstrates that an olfactory receptor's primary job is to be a chemical sensor, but depending on the context, it can influence how you perceive a smell,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 333 PIPE...
olfactory cues scent-marking calling kangana sauce lion's roar obviously they completely have different lifestyles and I just think that's indeed very very fascinating leopards
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Quote examples
Monty Don
English Celebrity
Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.
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Dhani Jones
American Athlete
The one thing that holds people back from working out together is that they don't want to smell around other people. Your olfactory sense is the primary sense in your memory, and you don't want to be part of anyone's memory thinking that you smell bad.
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Richard Axel
American Scientist
The identification of a population of olfactory sensory neurons innervating a single glomerulus that mediates robust avoidance to a naturally occurring odorant provides insight in the neural circuitry that underlies this innate behavior.
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Lyall Watson
South African Scientist
Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.
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Hamish Bowles
English Journalist
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
Quote examples
Monty Don
English Celebrity
Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.
Quote examples
Dhani Jones
American Athlete
The one thing that holds people back from working out together is that they don't want to smell around other people. Your olfactory sense is the primary sense in your memory, and you don't want to be part of anyone's memory thinking that you smell bad.
Quote examples
Richard Axel
American Scientist
The identification of a population of olfactory sensory neurons innervating a single glomerulus that mediates robust avoidance to a naturally occurring odorant provides insight in the neural circuitry that underlies this innate behavior.
Quote examples
Lyall Watson
South African Scientist
Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.
Quote examples
Hamish Bowles
English Journalist
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
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