(n.) Any smell, whether fragrant or offensive; scent; perfume.
Example Sentences:
(1) Experiment 3 showed that the color-induced increase in odor intensity is not due to subjects' preexperimental experience with particular color-odor combinations, because the increase occurred with novel ones.
(2) Because of the wide range of human nasal anatomic configurations, some people sniff odorants against comparatively high resistances.
(3) Superior memory for the word list was found when the odor present during the relearning session was the same one that had been present at the time of initial learning, thereby demonstrating context-dependent memory.
(4) Foraging honeybees (Apis mellifera) were trained with 2 successively presented targets differing in color or odor, one of which always contained a 5-microliters drop of 50% sucrose solution and the other, a 5-microliters drop of 20% sucrose solution.
(5) A programmable controller manages the olfactometer dilution stage selection, the odor stimulus switch and starts the peripheral devices required by the experiment.
(6) For the roof, different odorants produced different activity patterns, which had profiles not simply described as regions of maximal and minimal responsiveness.
(7) Hamsters with TNx retained their ability to detect odors, but demonstrated reduced attraction to vaginal odors as compared with unoperated animals.
(8) Chemosensory cilia of olfactory receptor neurons contain an adenylate cyclase which is stimulated by high concentrations of odorants.
(9) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
(10) The cyclic adenosine nucleotide pathway is turned off by kinase A activity, whereas the inositol trisphosphate cascade is terminated by kinase C. The data support the concept that desensitization of odorant responses involves phosphorylation of key elements in the transduction cascade.
(11) Like its counterparts from frog and rat, the ciliary enzyme was stimulated by guanine nucleotides, by forskolin, and by a variety of odorants in the presence of GTP.
(12) The level of the DA metabolite 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) increases only in pups receiving both odor and tactile stimulation and peaks at about 200% of baseline.
(13) In Experiment 1, an odor was presented 90 s before, during, or 90 s after a taste to independent groups.
(14) Examination of illustrative case reports demonstrates that the qualitative features of the Odorant Confusion Matrix offer additional insights to support etiologic diagnoses of disturbances in sense of smell.
(15) At 2.5 L min-1 both groups were able to track the buildup of odor intensity during infusion and its decline after infusion.
(16) Experiments 2 and 3 investigated whether desensitized animals could behaviorally detect and discriminate odors.
(17) No differences have been observed about aspect, odor, pH and volume of ejaculate.
(18) Determining specific ligand-receptor relationships is an extremely challenging task given the diversity of odorants able to be perceived and the potentially large size of the family of receptors.
(19) This review discusses the state of knowledge in odor memory within the framework of mainstream memory research.
(20) When heart rate is used as the index of conditioning, rat pups younger than 15 days of age do not display an odor-shock association.
Odour
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(2) There was a clear relationship between the receptor responses and odour concentration.
(3) produced strong rotten, fishy, hydrogen sulphide off-odours.
(4) This may be managed in future by an odour-reducing minimal APS-addition under a 2%-application.
(5) • Rules requiring local authorities to investigate and abate noise, dust and odour nuisances will be liberalised or improved.
(6) Distinction was made between different types of odours (rotten, wood).
(7) These laboratory bioassay findings agree with field observations on tsetse responses to certain chemical odours.
(8) A substantial improvement in the rate of detection of organic lesions affecting the olfactory pathway can be achieved by substituting odours such as musk ketone, exaltolide, linalyl acetate and coumarin for those in current use.
(9) One month later the subjects underwent a second recognition test, at the end of which they were required to give an evaluation of the pleasantness of each odour on a nine-point scale.
(10) Diluted DOMESTOS proved to be a cleaning agent and germicide, but was, however, blamed for chlorine odour, especially when diluted with warm water.
(11) The patient developed a characteristic fish odour of his sweat, urine and to his breath after the consumption of choline-rich foods.
(12) Only ACB produced classical musk-like UAO (UAO + ve) in an in vitro odour-producing system with 29% being UAO -ve.
(13) Effective stimuli were the odours of cattle and sheep and high concentrations of carbon dioxide from dry ice.
(14) A fast method for such comparisons, based on volume matching followed by the estimation of comparable surface dots, is presented and applied on a few selected sandalwood odour molecules.
(15) The plug is made of a soft, pliable plastic material with open cells, containing a carbon filter which allows flatus to pass odour-free.
(16) This study examines the effect of synthetic cattle-derived odours, presented with Communicable Diseases Centre (CDC) miniature light traps for mosquitoes and also with sticky traps for sandflies, in Sri Lanka.
(17) A statistical significant training effect could be shown with the qualitative test for training of the odour memory as well as the articulation in describing of smell impressions.
(18) The results were analysed from two viewpoints: the role of odour as a warning against chemical hazard, a possibility of using the shift of sensation threshold of appropriately selected reference standards as a measure of discomfort created by odours in working environment.
(19) The activities of 45 RRUs were analyzed during sniffing in response to an odour stimulus.
(20) The maturation of the granule cells of the ferret olfactory bulb around the time of odour imprinting has been examined.