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olfaction (smell)
The sense of smell carried by the olfactory nerve.
Clinical manifestations:
- people with a normal sense of smell have small spikes, or sniffs during each breath not seen in people with anosmia [2]
Related
age-associated changes in smell
olfaction & Alzheimer's disease
olfactory assessment
olfactory disorder
General
sensation (sense, sensory)
References
- Clinical Anatomy Made Ridiculously Simple. Stephen
Goldberg, MedMaster Inc, Miami, 1995
- Gorodisky L, Honigstein D, Weissbrod A et al
Humans without a sense of smell breathe differently.
Nat Commun. 2024 Oct 22;15(1):8809.
PMID: 39438441
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52650-6