All 3 Uses of
olfactory
in
Fast Food Nation
- Taste buds offer a relatively limited means of detection, however, compared to the human olfactory system, which can perceive thousands of different chemical aromas.
p. 123..2 *olfactory = related to the sense of smell
- They flow out of the mouth and up the nostrils, or up the passageway in the back of the mouth, to a thin layer of nerve cells called the olfactory epithelium, located at the base of the nose, right between the eyes.
p. 123..4
- A panel appointed by the National Academy of Sciences warned in 1985 that the nation's meat inspection program was hopelessly outdated, still relying on visual and olfactory clues to find disease while dangerous pathogens slipped past undetected.
p. 206..0olfactory = smell
Definition:
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(olfactory) relating to the sense of smell