(n.) The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived.
Example Sentences:
(1) There appears to be a perceptual limitation in olfaction relative to vision that influences stimulus encoding and stimulus retrieval processes but that does not affect retrieval of associated responses.
(2) Using this olfactory scale in the blotting paper test a rough quantitative screening of the degree of olfaction impairment should be possible, without recourse to expensive olfactometry.
(3) The significance of olfaction is frequently overlooked by health professionals.
(4) 4 days after the beginning of replacement therapy the treated mice were placed on an 18-hour food deprivation schedule in preparation for olfaction tests.
(5) An intact hippocampal formation, but not amygdala, is necessary for cross-modal association between vision and olfaction, topographical memory, conditioning to context, and configural discrimination learning.
(6) When deprived of olfaction, the performance of young women fell to the same level as that of the old women on first exposure.
(7) Our results suggest a role for cyclic nucleotides in olfactory transduction, and point to a molecular analogy between olfaction and visual, hormone and neurotransmitter reception.
(8) The pheromones now known in mammals are mostly transferred by contact and detected by accessory olfaction, which further indicates that pheromones in mammals should not be considered to be even a subclass of social odors.
(9) Offspring were assessed longitudinally for growth, mortality, and behavior (olfaction, locomotor activity, maze learning, avoidance acquisition and startle).
(10) We conclude that (1) IGD patients appear to retain minimal endogenous GnRH secretion so that the IGD pituitary responds to a minimal dose of GnRH without priming; (2) IGD is a heterogeneous syndrome in which affected individuals with and without normal olfaction represent parts of the spectrum of the same disease; and (3) except for the PRL response in females, the PRL, TSH and GH responses demonstrate that the IGD pituitaries are largely intact.
(11) To evaluate whether impaired olfaction may indicate CNS disease, the authors measured odor identification in patient groups defined along a continuum of progressive immunodeficiency and in a comparison group.
(12) To assess the relationship between sniff resistance and olfaction, ten subjects without nasal pathology or complaint were asked to estimate the perceived magnitude of the odorant, ethyl butyrate, at each of four concentrations and against each of four different resistances.
(13) Disturbances of taste but not olfaction have been reported with tetracycline use in the past.
(14) The tentacles of the terrestrial snail Achatina fulica contain an epithelium at their tips which is specialized for olfaction.
(15) The olfactory test administered to patients at the Connecticut Chemosensory Clinical Research Center combines stability of outcome with sensitivity to variables known to affect olfaction (age, sex).
(16) The utilization by evolution of the three-segment architecture of GTP-dependent signal transduction for other modalities of sensory perception, such as olfaction (Lancet et al., this volume) and gustation (Jones et al., this volume), is certainly a reasonable and successful choice.
(17) The chemical substances were perceived by the recipient females by means of olfaction.
(18) The full importance of olfaction has received minimal attention until recently renewed interest reveals that it becomes necessary not only for protection but also for digestion, memory, emotions, motor skills, and sexual performance.
(19) A prospective study of 100 patients undergoing nasal surgery was done to quantitate the effects of nasal surgery on olfaction.
(20) Drug preferences were usually evident within the first 10 min of the session, suggesting they were based on olfaction, taste, or other immediate postingestional effects.
Sense
Definition:
(v. t.) A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
(v. t.) Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
(v. t.) Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
(v. t.) Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
(v. t.) That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
(v. t.) Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
(v. t.) Moral perception or appreciation.
(v. t.) One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
(v. t.) To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
Example Sentences:
(1) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(3) One would expect banks to interpret this in a common sense and straightforward way without trying to circumvent it."
(4) Yesterday's flight may not quite have been one small step for man, but the hyperbole and the sense of history weighed heavily on those involved.
(5) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.
(6) In this sense, there is evidence that in genetically susceptible individuals, environmental stresses can influence the long-term level of arterial pressure via the central and peripheral neural autonomic pathways.
(7) He captivated me, but not just because of his intellect; it was for his wisdom, his psychological insights and his sense of humour that I will always remember our dinners together.
(8) The narX gene product may be involved in sensing nitrate and phosphorylating NARL.
(9) The second reason it makes sense for Osborne not to crow too much is that in terms of output per head of population, the downturn is still not over.
(10) Longer times of radiolabeling demonstrated that the nascent RNA accumulated as 42S RNA, which was primarily of the same sense as the virion strand when it was radiolabeled at 5 h postinfection.
(11) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
(12) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(13) The anticoagulant therapy undertaken by the patient appears to be of some benefit in the sense that no recurrence of thrombotic manifestations occurred.
(14) The results showed that measles virus produced three size classes of plus-sense N-containing RNA species corresponding to monocistronic N RNA, bicistronic NP RNA, and antigenomes.
(15) In this sense synapse formation must be considered a drawn out affair.
(16) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
(17) The problem is that too many people in this place just get advised by people who are just like them, so there’s groupthink, and they have no sense of what it’s like out there.” Is he talking about his predecessor?
(18) Stimulation threshold, sensing, and resistance measurements from both leads were comparable.
(19) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.