Sentence examples for olfaction from inspiring English sources
'olfaction' is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to describe the sense of smell. For example, "Humans have an amazing sense of olfaction, which can detect thousands of different smells."
noun
The sense of smell; the detection of airborne molecules
For them, as she told a session of the AAAS meeting devoted to olfaction and culture, things are rather different.
They note that olfaction relies on a turnover of stem cells (from which other sorts of cell develop) to maintain its functioning.
Studies of the brains of mice show that regions involved in olfaction also react to sound.Taste, too, seems linked to hearing.
Olfaction is used mainly to sense pheromones.
However, in some animals olfaction plays a significant role, often in conjunction with one of the other senses.
All of the cranial nerve nuclei, except those associated with olfaction and vision, are located in the brainstem, providing motor and sensory function to structures of the cranium, including the facial muscles, tongue, pharynx, and larynx, as well as supplying the senses of taste, equilibrium, and hearing.
The surprisingly complex social organization of these organisms is largely based on olfaction.
On the other hand, they do use "quasi-olfaction" (see below).
This sense permits dolphins to experience what would be classified as smell, but quasi-olfaction does not involve the nasal passages.
It has been established that the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) has a highly effective sense, called quasi-olfaction, operating through pits in the back of the tongue.
Neil Martin, director of the Human Olfaction Laboratory at Middlesex University, believes you can retrain your taste.
