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Definition of Olfactory bulb
1. Noun. One of two enlargements at the terminus of the olfactory nerve at the base of the brain just above the nasal cavities.
Medical Definition of Olfactory bulb
1. Ovoid body resting on the cribriform plate of the ethmoid bone where the olfactory nerve terminates. The olfactory bulb contains several types of nerve cells including the mitral cells, on whose dendrites the olfactory nerve synapses, forming the olfactory glomeruli. The accessory olfactory bulb, which receives the projection from the vomeronasal organ via the vomeronasal nerve, is also included here. (12 Dec 1998)
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Literary usage of Olfactory bulb
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1. Text-book of normal histology: including an account of the development of by George Arthur Piersol (1904)
"Section of portion of human olfactory bulb : I, 3, ... While the layers present
in the tract are continued into the terminal olfactory bulb, ..."
2. A Text-book of physiology: For Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1915)
"The olfactory bulb and its Connections.—The olfactory bulbs are outgrowths ...
Diagram of the central course of the olfactory fibers: 7, olfactory bulb; O, ..."
3. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"The olfactory tract consists of fibers passing to and from the olfactory bulb.
Through it each bulb receives fibers from the other by way of the anterior ..."
4. Quain's Elements of Anatomy by Jones Quain, Edward Albert Sharpey-Schäfer, George Dancer Thane, Johnson Symington (1893)
"SECTION ACROSS A PART 01 THE olfactory bulb (Henle). 1. 3, layers of very fine
transversely cut nerve-fibres, passing round into one another at the side, ..."
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