| Term Name: | olfactory system |
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| Definition: | Sensory system responsible for olfaction. Olfaction involves the detection of chemical composition of an organism's ambient medium by chemoreceptors. |
| Appears at: | Segmentation:10-13 somites (14.0h-16.0h) |
| Evident until: | Adult (90d-730d, breeding adult) |
| Ontology: | Anatomy Ontology [ZFA:0001149] |
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