OLFACTORY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does olfactory mean? 

• OLFACTORY (adjective)
  The adjective OLFACTORY has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to olfaction

  Familiarity information: OLFACTORY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLFACTORY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to olfaction

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

olfactive; olfactory

Pertainym:

smell (the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents)

 Context examples 

An experimental concept that relates to the anterior region of the olfactory bulb.

(Anterior Olfactory Lobule, NCI Thesaurus)

This has made it difficult for researchers to pinpoint how many different scents, or olfactory stimuli, we can distinguish.

(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)

Olfactory glands in the epithelium produce and secrete mucus which forms a layer over the epithelium.

(Olfactory Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)

An olfactory neuroblastoma arising in the nasal cavity.

(Nasal Cavity Olfactory Neuroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The olfactory nerve conveys the sense of smell.

(Murine Olfactory Nerve, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Olfactory signals are ubiquitous among mammals and serve to advertise quality and reproductive state, but they are poorly understood, said Michelle Elekonich, a program director in NSF's Directorate for Biological Sciences.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)

A meningioma that affects the olfactory sulcus.

(Olfactory Groove Meningioma, NCI Thesaurus)

It gives rise to olfactory receptor cells and sustentacular cells.

(Olfactory Basal Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles coffee.

(Coffee Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

Its neurons are in the olfactory mucosa in the nasal cavity.

(Olfactory Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)