Crossword-Solution: OLFACTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Olfaction | n. | The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived. |
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| The sense of smell | 1 answer |
| Sense of smell | 3 answers |
| Smelling __ | 5 answers |
| Smell | 69 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with OLFACTION (5)
Anosmia, or loss of smell, is the most common disorder of olfaction; it may be caused by cortical lesions, olfactory nerve-changes, congenital absence, or over-stimulation of the nerves, or it may be a symptom of hysteria.
One example: Under the pragmatic conditions leading to language, olfaction played a role comparable to sight and hearing, effectively controlling taste.
Hughes (Brighton) writes: "I value this medicine much in nervous headaches, and I always carry it in my pocket-case-- as the mother tincture--which I generally administer _by olfaction_." For epilepsy, it is said in the United States of America to be "the one grand master-remedy," by giving a drop of the tincture every five minutes during the attack, and five drops five times a day in water, for some weeks afterwards.
Two French observers believe that they have proved the sense of olfaction to be nine times more acute in women than in men.
Even Ferrier and Munk agree on the hippocampal gyrus, though Ferrier restricts olfaction, as Munk does not, to the lobule or uncinate process of the convolution, reserving the rest of it for touch.