olfactory
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Then the team hopes to treat the problem by placing sensor chips in the patient’s olfactory tissue to help preserve or restore scent perception.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
The initial goal is to create a diagnostic test to measure olfactory loss—a marker of Covid-19 and other conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Village dogs showed enriched wolf ancestry in olfactory receptor genes, which may support their need to locate human food waste.
From Science Daily • Nov. 29, 2025
Each fragrance is infused with three natural ingredients — the synthetic molecules of aldehydes, alcohol from upcycled carbon emissions and water — to reach the “highest degree of olfactory clarity and expression.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2025
Electrodes in the olfactory bulbs of salmon will fire when the olfactory epithelium is exposed to water from their spawning grounds, whereas water from other streams causes no response.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
