Preferred Name | Olfactory sensation | |
Synonyms |
olfaction|Olfactory perception |
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ID |
http://bioontology.org/projects/ontologies/birnlex#birnlex_1844 |
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abbrev | ||
class_or_indiv |
true |
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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) |
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external_id_urls |
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/mesh/2008/MB_cgi?field=uid&term=D012903 |
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external_ids |
umlsCUI:C0037361|meshUID:D012903 |
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label |
Olfactory sensation |
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mod_date |
2007-08-22 |
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preferred_label |
Olfactory sensation |
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prefixIRI |
birnlex_1844 |
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prefLabel |
Olfactory sensation |
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retired |
false |
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synonyms |
olfaction|Olfactory perception |
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subClassOf |
http://bioontology.org/projects/ontologies/birnlex#birnlex_1889 |