How To Use olfaction In A Sentence
- The majority of species are active in the late evening or in the darkness of the night, and sphingids were assumed to use olfaction rather than vision to find and recognise flowers.
- Megachiroptera has only one family, Pteropodidae, and megabat species are either frugivorous or nectarivorous, lacking laryngeal echolocation and relying on olfaction or vision to search food.
- Despite the importance of olfaction in mediating food flavours and protecting the organism from leaking natural gas and other environmental hazards, its clinical assessment is not standardized in clinical practice in Australia.
- It has established prestigious five year fellowships for outstanding laboratory investigators, particularly in hearing and olfaction.
- Less obvious in its function in sociality than sight and hearing, olfaction still mediates relationships between subjects.
- Recent findings on the sensitivity of primate olfaction and gustation to ethanol are consistent with this notion.
- At the same time, and by the very same token, the enlarged forebrain permits increased neuronal processing of olfactory information, so the tight chemical coupling between olfaction and endocrine release is no longer so necessary.
- This relationship usually excludes any kind of reasoning; the initial effect of olfaction is the sense of being transported, especially when a long forgotten smell is freshly experienced.
- The primary function of this system is the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide; secondary functions are phonation and olfaction.
- Humans detect chemical substances in the environment through 2 sensory channels: olfaction and the chemical sense.
