olfactory nerve

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nounAnatomy.
  1. either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.

Origin of olfactory nerve

1
First recorded in 1660–70

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How to use olfactory nerve in a sentence

  • Perhaps SARS-CoV-2 could breach the skull by climbing along the olfactory nerve, which carries smells from the nose directly to the brain, some researchers thought.

  • This may perhaps be called the olfactory nerve, though clearly of a different character to the other nerves.

  • Here are found a large number of rod-shaped cells which are connected with the brain by means of the olfactory nerve.

    A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
  • Because we have tiny olfactory nerve endings buried in the mucous membrane of our noses and throats.

    The Coffin Cure | Alan Edward Nourse
  • Scents, like sounds, appear to influence the olfactory nerve in certain definite degrees.

    The Art of Perfumery | G. W. Septimus Piesse

British Dictionary definitions for olfactory nerve

olfactory nerve

noun
  1. either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, supplying the mucous membrane of the nose

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Scientific definitions for olfactory nerve

olfactory nerve

  1. Either of the first pair of cranial nerves that carries sensory information relating to smell from the nose to the brain.

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