olfaction
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- noun
- /ɒlˈfækʃən/
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olfacción
- Rats have more genetic material allocated to olfaction than any other mammal species.
- subjective olfaction
- olfaction score
What does artificial olfaction tell us about subjective olfaction in biological beings?
- What does artificial olfaction tell us about subjective olfaction in biological beings?
- Let me pick a hard one, like sound, sound or olfaction.
- They're mostly obviously sensing things with their Electro sensing in the water, but also olfaction.
- But one of the reasons why olfaction smell is so closely tied to memory is because olfaction is the most ancient sense that we have.
Examples
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I'm a post-doc studying olfaction and taste in Alan Carleton's lab at the University of Geneva.
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Olfaction occupies a prominent place in Arab life.
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Dogs, they have vision, of course, but for dogs smell, olfaction is so much more important.
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My specialty is olfaction—the strange and wonderful world of smell.
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Some people who are blind have also reported using olfaction, in addition to touch and hearing, to recognize objects and persons (Hatwell, 2003). Doing so may promote some practice-related enhancements of the sense of smell at a basic level.
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Dogs rely on their olfaction to detect scents from miles away.
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Research shows that olfaction plays a crucial role in how we remember past experiences.
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The process of olfaction is essential for identifying different types of food and beverages.
Synonyms
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The ability to notice and recognize scents with the nose
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The act of noticing a scent with your nose
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The ability to notice and tell scents apart with the nose
The sense that lets people smell and tell different scents apart
The ability to notice and recognize smells with your nose
A feeling you have when you smell something
How Acute
Surface Forms
Morphology
olfaction = olfactory (semi-transparent) = olfact + ion
Formally built from the combining form 'olfact-' + '-ion' and clearly related to 'olfactory', but the medical/scientific stem 'olfact-' is not familiar to many learners who know the everyday word 'smell'.
Etymology
Olfaction comes from the Latin verb olfacere, which means 'to smell'. So olfaction simply means the 'sense of smell' — the ability to notice and tell different smells apart.