olfaction
pronunciation
How to pronounce olfaction in British English:
UK [ɒl'fækʃn]
How to pronounce olfaction in American English:
US [ɑlˈfækʃən, ol-]
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- Noun:
- the faculty of smell
Word Origin
- olfaction (n.)
- noun of action from Latin olfactus, past participle of olfacere "to smell, get the smell of" (transitive), from olere "to emit a smell" (see odor) + facere "to make" (see factitious).
Example
- 1. Studies of the brains of mice show that regions involved in olfaction also react to sound .
- 2. The team happened upon the link between sex and olfaction while investigating the sense of smell in fruit flies .
- 3. Only in olfaction is this sensory pattern represented in the frontal cortex which is the most developed part of the human brain .
- 4. It infuriates me and I think it undermines exactly what you lay out in your book : that the human propensity for taste and olfaction is actually much more sophisticated than we might assume .
- 5. Nor is this response restricted to humans . Studies of the brains of mice show that regions involved in olfaction also react to sound .