olfactory nerve
olfactory nerve
nounDefinition of OLFACTORY NERVE
: either of the pair of nerves that are the first cranial nerves and that arise in the olfactory neurosensory cells of the nasal mucous membrane and pass to the anterior part of the cerebrum
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