Preferred Name

Olfactory sensation
Synonyms

olfaction|Olfactory perception

ID

http://bioontology.org/projects/ontologies/birnlex#birnlex_1844

abbrev

class_or_indiv

true

definition

* Smell; the faculty of smell, the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form. (NCI) * The sensation or perception of scents or odors. (MSH) * The series of events required for an organism to receive an olfactory stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Olfaction involves the detection of chemical composition of an organism's ambient medium by chemoreceptors. [GO:ai, http://www.onelook.com/] (GO) * sensation or perception of scents or odors; sense of smell. (CSP)

external_id_urls

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2008/MB_cgi?field=uid&term=D012903

external_ids

umlsCUI:C0037361|meshUID:D012903

label

Olfactory sensation

mod_date

2007-08-22

preferred_label

Olfactory sensation

prefixIRI

birnlex_1844

prefLabel

Olfactory sensation

retired

false

synonyms

olfaction|Olfactory perception

subClassOf

http://bioontology.org/projects/ontologies/birnlex#birnlex_1889

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