How to Use olfactory bulb in a Sentence

olfactory bulb

noun

• The implant is also about the right size for the olfactory bulb on the edge of the brain.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2022
• On the other hand, the olfactory bulb allows the brain to process smells.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 July 2022
• The virus may get to the brain through the olfactory bulb — which regulates smell — through the eyes or even from the bloodstream.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2020
• The condition is related to the olfactory bulb, a bundle of nerves in the brain that process smell.
  — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 11 Jan. 2021
• The connection likely has to do with a part of the brain called the olfactory bulb, which processes sense of smell.
  — NBC News, 29 July 2021
• Once through the plate, N. fowleri gets into the olfactory bulb—the structure in the forebrain involved in smell.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 July 2019
• The olfactory nerve begins in the nasal cavity and ends in the olfactory bulb, in the brain.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• The researchers found that the order in which the six areas of the olfactory bulb was crucial to the scent being recognized.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020
• The human sense of smell is not very acute, so the olfactory bulb is relatively small—about the size of a sunflower seed.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• Scientists believe the virus can enter the brain through the olfactory bulb, where taste and smell are decoded.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 8 Apr. 2021
• The olfactory bulb also sends signals to other parts of the brain that play a role in emotion, memory and learning.
  — NBC News, 29 July 2021
• In April, 2012, Tabakow, with his medical team, opened up Fidyka’s skull and removed part of his olfactory bulb.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• An organ called the olfactory bulb shunts the chemical messages straight to the part of the brain that deals with stored feelings and memories, bypassing the cerebral cortex, the main part of the brain.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2022
• In living birds, the size of the olfactory bulb is linked to both the number and diversity of smell receptors an animal has.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2019
• The olfactory bulb — the area of the brain that processes odors — is tightly connected to the amygdala, which is where the brain reacts emotionally.
  — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 9 May 2018
• As a result, that information about the smell of gasoline is quickly passed on from the olfactory bulb to the parts of your brain that control your emotions and memories.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
• The olfactory bulb has connections to regions of the temporal lobe.
  — Jessica Bernard, The Conversation, 24 Sep. 2021
• The reason: the olfactory bulb runs from the nose to the base of our brains and has a connection to our amygdala, the part of our brain that processes emotion and the hippocampus, which looks after memory.
  — Anita Bhagwandas, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Oct. 2022
• This tissue is filled with neurons, which pick up the odor molecule and transport it through the olfactory bulb and into the brain, where it's interpreted as, say, the scent of roses.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2021
• The coronavirus that causes the disease covid-19 is known to enter cells via receptors in the olfactory bulb, the brain structure involved in the sense of smell, which is why a telltale symptom of the disease is a loss of smell.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2021
• The situation is a bit different with songbirds and other feathered friends, which have very small olfactory bulbs (the brain structure involved in the sense of smell).
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2017
• One of the most common, loss of smell and taste, could indicate that the virus is affecting olfactory neurons or even the olfactory bulb, where the brain processes scent.
  — Sara Harrison, Wired, 6 Nov. 2020
• Except for one thing: The olfactory bulb, a fingerling potato-looking mass of cells behind the nose that relays smell signals to the brain, remained inflamed even a month later.
  — Jason Mast, STAT, 13 June 2022
• In fact, Braak and his colleagues also found Lewy bodies in the olfactory bulb, which led them to propose the nose as another potential place of initiation.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
• The odors then stimulate our nasal olfactory neurons and the olfactory bulb.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• According to Olofsson, the olfactory system — the parts of the brain related to smell, including the olfactory bulb, the part of the brain that processes smell — connects to parts of the brain that process memory.
  — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 31 July 2022
• As part of that work, the lab sequenced cells in the epithelium — a sheet of neurons and supporting cells lining the upper nasal cavities — and olfactory bulb of mice to determine what RNA each cell expressed.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
• Second, the particles can bypass the barrier altogether by slipping from the nose into the olfactory nerves and then traveling to a part of the brain called the olfactory bulb.
  — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 12 May 2020
• The team is currently searching out more people lacking olfactory bulbs for follow-up studies.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Nov. 2019
• The amygdala, which controls emotions like fear and pleasure, and the hippocampus, which handles memory, are both structures of the limbic system, which have tons of neural connections near the olfactory bulb.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Aug 2024