How to Use olfaction in a Sentence

olfaction

noun

• The gift of olfaction is one of the joys of life, Holbrook says.
  — National Geographic, 7 Apr. 2020
• The dogs sniffed samples of human sweat in an olfaction cone.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2022
• In addition to these two growth spurts, the researchers suggest, olfaction led to a third set of changes in the mammal brain.
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2011
• After all, the study of avian olfaction is not straightforward.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2022
• Gisele knows all too well the power that our olfaction can have on our wellbeing.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 23 July 2022
• The scientific name for this process is retro nasal olfaction, where the odors flow from the back of your mouth up through your nasal pharynx and into your nasal cavity.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 Apr. 2020
• For instance, olfaction seems to play a key role in mate choice and helps detecting emotions in other people.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2013
• Your sense of smell, also called olfaction, is very powerful.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 7 June 2018
• But sit with that for a while: Try to imagine an existence in which scent is no less important than sight, and your very sense of time and self is entangled with olfaction.
  — Brandon Keim, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
• Mice stripped of their sense of smell burn fat differently — more intensively — than do mice whose olfaction is normal, the new study found.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 5 July 2017
• That’s changing fast, as studies of bird olfaction expand into new species.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 7 July 2021
• This is not news: Some of the most influential philosophers in Western history turned up their noses at olfaction.
  — Tracy Wan, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
• One goal for the Penn Vet group is to use dog olfaction data to screen for cancers for which there are no reliable early tests, like ovarian cancer.
  — Kathryn Bowers, Slate Magazine, 24 Apr. 2017
• The scientists determined that the missing genes were related to olfaction, or the rat's sense of smell, and the animal's immune functions.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
• The answer, at least in the context of olfaction, has a humanistic ring to it: an experience is a matter of timing and the sum of many small particulars.
  — Jason Castro, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2020
• The obvious explanation for this effect—that mice with impaired olfaction were eating less—turned out to be wrong.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 5 July 2017
• There were those — about three-quarters of Covid patients, Reed says — who recovered their olfaction fairly quickly, from a few weeks to a couple of months after losing it.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
• The panelists didn’t always agree with each other; olfaction is more subjective than many other senses.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
• Volatiles refer to chemicals evaporated into the air that are part of the retronasal olfaction process that produces flavor, Bartoshuk says.
  — Terry Ward, CNN, 19 Oct. 2022
• The results suggest some regions of the brain connected to the olfaction system may shrink slightly in the wake of an infection, although the effect is minor and its consequences are unclear.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022
• Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include that Eva Mishor is a human olfaction researcher.
  — Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• With each project, Yi appears to be intrigued by olfaction’s ability to manipulate how people discern the things in front of them—by, in effect, the subtle invasiveness of smell.
  — Jane Yong Kim, The Atlantic, 25 June 2017
• Everything more complicated than that wafts up the back of your throat via a process called retronasal olfaction to an array of nerve endings dangling through a perforated bit of skull behind your nose called the cribriform plate.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 16 May 2018
• But the study, published in the latest issue of the Journal of Neurological Sciences, does show that olfaction may be a promising avenue for future diagnostic tests for Alzheimer's.
  — Breanna Draxler, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2013
• Past researchers have tackled the topic of olfaction navigation by blocking the bird's sense of smell or disrupting their magnetic sense, according to a press release.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2017
• While the insects can be used to study functions such as navigation and olfaction, animals such as rodents or primates possess more behaviors that model our own.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
• Until the end of the twentieth century, the problem for any theorist of olfaction was that no one had really been able to study the olfactory receptors, or even prove their existence.
  — Scott Sayare, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• And a better appreciation of the powers of human olfaction could be important, Dr. McCann said.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• Perhaps, then, the most useful analogies for how cells work are themselves biological, such as olfaction or cognition.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
• Even if turning off mosquitoes’ smell cells is a dead end, cluing into how their olfaction works can still help with the design of new repellents that could target tons of their chemical sensors at once, Gloria-Soria told me.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024