Term 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 |