olfactory system

olfactory system

the primary structures and processes involved in an organism’s detection of and responses to odorants. The olfactory system includes several million olfactory receptors in the nasal cavity, the olfactory epithelium and vomeronasal system, olfactory transduction, neural impulses and pathways (see olfactory nerve), and associated brain areas and their functions.

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