olfactory bulb

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noun Anatomy.

the enlarged terminal part of each olfactory lobe from which the olfactory nerve originates.

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Origin of olfactory bulb

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby olfactory bulb

oleyl alcohol, olfaction, olfactometer, olfactometry, olfactory, olfactory bulb, olfactory lobe, olfactory nerve, olfactory tract, OLG, Olga

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How to use olfactory bulb in a sentence

When molecules fly into our nose, they bind to the cilia, and the neurons send this information to the olfactory bulb, which interprets it, resulting in our sensation of the smell.
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One day, he took a monk with a cleanly shaven head and had him walk around a light bulb to demonstrate this theory.
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The trade in empty bottles should be as eyebrow-raising as the old Soviet dud-bulb biz.
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His bright idea turned out to be the incandescent light bulb, which he invented in 1880.
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Death waits for these things as a cement floor waits for a dropping light bulb.
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In 2007, the Bush administration signed a measure that would finally bring the light bulb into the 21st century.
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Bang went the fragile bulb, as it splintered into a thousand atoms, and the mercury shot in sparkling globules over the table.
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Should it fail, the fluid can generally be pumped out by alternate compression of the tube and the bulb.
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Then the tip end was broken off, and the bulb being a vacuum, the colored water was drawn into it, and filled the globe.
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When, with returning fair weather, the atmospheric pressure increases, the water can no longer bulge or drop out of the bulb.
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In this chair is a charge of high explosive and above it a glass bulb containing sulphuric acid.
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British Dictionary definitions for olfactory bulb

olfactory bulb

noun

the anterior and slightly enlarged end of the olfactory tract, from which the cranial nerves concerned with the sense of smell originate

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