| Term: | peripheral olfactory organ sensory perception of smell |
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| Note: | This page represents a term created by the combination ("post-composition") of two ontology terms. For more information on the individual terms, click the hyperlinked name. |
| Name: | peripheral olfactory organ |
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| Synonyms: | nasal sac, nose |
| Definition: | Organ that is the specialized structure of the face that contains olfactory neurons. The peripheral olfactory organ is paired. |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0000047] |
| Name: | sensory perception of smell |
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| Synonyms: | olfaction, scent perception, sense of smell, smell perception |
| Definition: | The series of events required for an organism to receive an olfactory stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Olfaction involves the detection of chemical composition of an organism's ambient medium by chemoreceptors. This is a neurological process. |
| Ontology: | GO: Biological Process [GO:0007608] QuickGO AmiGO |