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Olfaction

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Olfaction
The sense of smell. Olfactory apparatus: The whole system needed to have a sense of smell.
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1. The sense of smell. SYN: smell (2). 2. The act of smelling. SYN: osmesis, osphresis. [L. ol- facio, pp. -factus, to smell]

Medical dictionary. 2011.

  
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