olfactory bulb
- noun
- /ɒlˈfæktəri bʌlb/
- Specialized
- When you inhale, the scent travels to the bulb, which quickly signals the brain to recognize the odor.
Examples
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We minimized movement artifacts by using a stainless steel headbar that had contact points both above the cerebellum and anterior to the olfactory bulb to ensure that the entire skull was rigidly fixed.
Academic text (2016) -
The nerve goes through those holes and synapses at the first target in the brain, which is the olfactory bulb in humans.
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Yet we still detect brain activity from olfactory bulbs, representing the pattern, reaction, to banana smell.
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The olfactory bulb (which is involved with our sense of smell) and the hippocampus.
Academic text (2002) -
Dragging flowers to the nose shows how the olfactory bulb in the brain is stimulated.
Academic text (2015) -
But if you look at this level, when you're behind the olfactory bulb here, you have the dorsal pallium.
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The olfactory bulbs project directly to it, but the part that the olfactory bulb doesn't project to, it's dominated by the balance.
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For my recordings in the olfactory bulb, I used electrodes that had an area of 312 µm².
Blog text (3) -
Furthermore, as mentioned above, there are regional differences in the cellular bases of neurovascular response (e.g., the olfactory bulb, neocortex, cerebellum, etc.), which may also play a role.
Academic text (2017) -
The olfactory bulb processes information about different smells, helping us identify various scents like flowers and food.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from 'olfactory' (relating to smell) and 'bulb' (a rounded swelling or rounded structure), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it denotes a rounded structure involved in smell processing. This is a literal, technical noun phrase following regular English compounding and is cross-linguistically transparent in scientific terminology.
Etymology
Olfactory bulb gets its name from old Latin words: olfactory comes from a word meaning 'to smell' and bulb means it is round like a plant 'bulb'. So the name fits because this round part above the nose helps the brain 'smell'.