单词 | olfactory nerve |
释义 | olfactory nerven. Anatomy and Zoology. Either of the first pair of cranial nerves, which supply the smell receptors in the mucous membrane of the nose. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > other nerves in head olfactory nerve1671 gustatory nerve1684 ophthalmic1738 suborbitary1825 Vidian nerve1828 tympanichord1887 1671 Philos. Trans. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 2060 Vesalius was the first, that rightly observed the Olfactory Nerves. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind ii. §1 The membrana pituitaria, and the olfactory nerves, which are distributed to the villous parts of this membrane. 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxix. 609 The olfactory nerves.., as in Reptiles, still enter the nose without dividing. 1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene I. xi. 133 He was obliged to retire with his handkerchief to his nose; and the audience, finding it impossible to check the titillation of the olfactory nerves, abandoned the theatre as fast as they could. 1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xxxii. 401 Experimental work indicated that the virus enters the olfactory nerves by the exposed olfactory hairs and passes by the axones to the brain. 1993 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 Oct. b6/4 Donna..is working with a device called a rapid quench system to expose rat olfactory nerve cells to a citrus odor and measure the response. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1671 |
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