Definition of Olfactory brain

1. Noun. A center in the cerebral hemispheres that governs the sense of smell in lower animals; in humans it seems to mediate complex emotional behavior.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Olfactory Brain

olfactions
olfactive
olfactology
olfactometer
olfactometers
olfactometric
olfactometry
olfactophobia
olfactor
olfactoric
olfactories
olfactors
olfactory
olfactory angle
olfactory area
olfactory brain (current term)
olfactory bulb
olfactory bundle
olfactory cells
olfactory cortex
olfactory epithelium
olfactory esthesioneuroblastoma
olfactory fila
olfactory foramen
olfactory glands
olfactory glomerulus
olfactory groove
olfactory hallucination
olfactory hyperesthesia
olfactory hypesthesia

Literary usage of Olfactory brain

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nervous System and Its Constituent Neurones: Designed for the Use of by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1901)
"His, of Leipzig, has shown that the developing olfactory brain becomes separated at the beginning of the second month from the anterior end of the ..."

2. Morris's Human Anatomy: A Complete Systematic Treatise by English and by Henry Morris, James Playfair McMurrich (1907)
"The rhinencephalon or olfactory brain includes those portions of the cerebral hemisphere which are chiefly concerned as the central connections of the ..."

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