(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.
Perfume
Definition:
(v. t.) To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.
(v.) The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.
(v.) A substance that emits an agreeable odor.
Example Sentences:
(1) ", the name of the perfume, which is produced and distributed by Coty UK.
(2) The most frequent sensitizers observed included nickel sulphate, cobalt, Kathon CG, perfumes, potassium dichromate and balsam of Peru.
(3) For the second show in the Guardian’s 10-week radio series on NTS, Alexis talked to the Guide’s Kate Hutchinson about glam’s early innovators, forgotten outliers and its modern descendants: T Rex to David Bowie and Iron Virgin to Perfume Genius.
(4) The names she cites include Givaudan (perfume), Verifone (secure payment) and Premier Foods.
(5) The poster features an image of the singer sitting on the floor with her head and shoulders leaning against a wall and her legs raised against a large bottle of perfume.
(6) It is also important to be aware of perfumes and grocery products as causes of this phenomenon.
(7) Other reactions include consort dermatitis and reactions to toothpastes, gum and perfumes in paper products, sanitary napkins, ostomy pastes, and detergents.
(8) Although such materials are used for their fixative and odor qualities rather than their pheromonal effects, perfumes are generally marketed as having the ability to enhance sexual attractiveness.
(9) The loud ties, hideous jumpers, bottles of Drambuie, dubious perfumes and aftershaves, second copies of DVDs, panettones and stultifying board games are all an extension of that.
(10) Excessive afferent stimulation (flashing lights, noise, strong perfumes) or hypothalamic changes resulting from emotion, stress or the operation of some internal clock may set in motion brainstem mechanisms, including spontaneous unilateral or bilateral discharge of pain pathways.
(11) The 9.1% female reactivity may be traceable to perfumed cosmetics.
(12) It has all the metaphors of smoothness.” Sporting a glittering LV logo at the front door, it could also be a gigantic Louis Vuitton perfume bottle, smashed to smithereens.
(13) This week's edition of the FT's How to Spend It, suggests some Christmas foibles – £625 gloves, £705 Black Amber perfume, a £10,000 Boodles bangle.
(14) One Direction and Little Mix, managed by Simon Cowell’s Syco organisation, have an extensive portfolio of money-spinning activities from perfume to clothing ranges, make up and look-alike dolls.
(15) Contact dermatitis essentially involves those areas to which perfume is applied.
(16) The X Factor judge Tulisa may have thought she was harnessing the power of social media when she asked her 3 million Twitter followers to suggest names for her new perfume.
(17) When she uses public toilets, she likes to rub her vagina around the lavatory seat, and she has experimented with "long periods of not washing my pussy", to investigate its erotic impact - dabbing her own personal pubic perfume behind her earlobes.
(18) However, if the mother is perfumed prior to nursing, pups will learn to respond to the novel odor with the characteristic nipple-search behavior in just one 3-4 min nursing episode.
(19) During this time, the participants did not bathe or shower or apply any scent producing substance to their bodies, i.e., deodorants, perfumes.
(20) As part of an international cooperative study of the photophysical, photomutagenic and photocarcinogenic properties of bergamot oil and the effect of UVA and UVB sunscreens, the phototoxic properties of model perfumes containing 5, 15 and 50 ppm 5-methoxypsoralen (5-MOP) in bergamot oil with and without a sunscreen have been investigated on human skin.