(a.) Bearing or yielding an odor; perfumed; usually, sweet of scent; fragrant; as, odoriferous spices, particles, fumes, breezes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The radical mastoid cavity can be troublesome and odoriferous, may require frequent visits to an otologist, and may interfere with swimming and showering.
(2) This favors the reduced conditions conducive to production of odoriferous volatiles.
(3) Since intact class I molecules are unlikely to be the odoriferous component in the urine, two hypotheses have been suggested.
(4) A unique odorant-binding protein localized to nasal mucosa binds odorants in proportion to their odoriferous potencies.
(5) They produce a dirty white almost flaky odoriferous substance which clings to the hairs of the area and is easily rubbed off for marking territorial areas as well as for marking females during mating.
(6) In these horses, the survival rate was significantly less than for horses from which odoriferous specimens were not isolated.
(7) Clinical findings indicated mild encephalitis with some capability to respond to odoriferous stimuli.
(8) The contents of the reservoirs of both pairs of odoriferous glands become modified in two ways as the beetles age.
(9) A simple olfactometer was constructed for measuring the responses of adult Drosophila to odoriferous substances, and an index (attractability index, AI) is proposed to evaluate the response.
(10) The papule rapidly enlarged with ulceration; this completely destroyed his right earlobe, which was covered with odoriferous yellow-white necrotic tissue.
(11) Among extant genera in the class Coniferopsida which produce fleshy, animal-dispersed seeds, there appear to be two distinct evolutionary lines: (1) those with relatively large (greater than 20 mm), odoriferous diaspores dispersed primarily by mammals; and (2) those with relatively small (less than 10 mm), visually attractive diaspores dispersed primarily by birds.
(12) Seeds produced by this widely cultivated tree consist of an odoriferous, vesicatory coat surrounding a hard-shelled "nut."
(13) This difference suggests that one of the functions of the secretions of the odoriferous glands is to prevent the growth of fungi or bacteria in the nutrient flour.
(14) Muscopyridine (1) is one of the odoriferous constituents of natural musk.
(15) According to herbalist theory, pathogenesis results from odoriferous agents that invade the body regions (head, thorax, abdomen) of the victim.
(16) Respiration-linked spindles of 20-30 cps, 30-50 microV, 1-3 s duration were registered in response to various odoriferous stimuli.
(17) Propylamine is identified as one of the compounds present in odoriferous intravaginal contraceptive sponges from sexually active women.
Odorous
Definition:
(a.) Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling.
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.