How to Use olfaction in a Sentence

olfaction

noun

• The gift of olfaction is one of the joys of life, Holbrook says.
  — National Geographic, 7 Apr. 2020
• The dogs sniffed samples of human sweat in an olfaction cone.
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 3 June 2022
• Gisele knows all too well the power that our olfaction can have on our wellbeing.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 23 July 2022
• After all, the study of avian olfaction is not straightforward.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2022
• Your sense of smell, also called olfaction, is very powerful.
  — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 7 June 2018
• That’s changing fast, as studies of bird olfaction expand into new species.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 7 July 2021
• In addition to these two growth spurts, the researchers suggest, olfaction led to a third set of changes in the mammal brain.
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 20 May 2011
• Presumably, then, the art of olfaction can ready our minds for new experiences.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• For instance, olfaction seems to play a key role in mate choice and helps detecting emotions in other people.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2013
• But Parma, who’s spent her career studying olfaction, has a stress reaction to it.
  — Angela Haupt, Time, 7 Apr. 2026
• Mice stripped of their sense of smell burn fat differently — more intensively — than do mice whose olfaction is normal, the new study found.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 5 July 2017
• The panelists didn’t always agree with each other; olfaction is more subjective than many other senses.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Jan. 2023
• The obvious explanation for this effect—that mice with impaired olfaction were eating less—turned out to be wrong.
  — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 5 July 2017
• The scientific name for this process is retro nasal olfaction, where the odors flow from the back of your mouth up through your nasal pharynx and into your nasal cavity.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 25 June 2021
• Machine olfaction starts with sensors that detect and identify molecules in the air.
  — Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 30 May 2024
• Connections to the amygdala, a part of the brain responsible for emotions and olfaction, increased as well.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• People around me started reporting a temporary loss of olfaction.
  — Tracy Wan, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
• So how does all this digital olfaction data turn into valuable insights for companies?
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 10 May 2021
• Kant deemed olfaction unworthy of study because of its ephemerality.
  — Tracy Wan, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
• Fly olfaction can also inform the next generation of tracking devices designed to find the source of an indoor chemical leak.
  — Lizette Ortega, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
• Perhaps, then, the most useful analogies for how cells work are themselves biological, such as olfaction or cognition.
  — Quanta Magazine, 16 Sep. 2021
• One goal for the Penn Vet group is to use dog olfaction data to screen for cancers for which there are no reliable early tests, like ovarian cancer.
  — Kathryn Bowers, Slate Magazine, 24 Apr. 2017
• The scientists determined that the missing genes were related to olfaction, or the rat's sense of smell, and the animal's immune functions.
  — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2022
• Volatiles refer to chemicals evaporated into the air that are part of the retronasal olfaction process that produces flavor, Bartoshuk says.
  — Terry Ward, CNN, 19 Oct. 2022
• While the insects can be used to study functions such as navigation and olfaction, animals such as rodents or primates possess more behaviors that model our own.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
• Species with more olfactory receptor genes also tended to have more olfactory turbinals, bony structures in the nasal cavity that aid olfaction.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• There were those — about three-quarters of Covid patients, Reed says — who recovered their olfaction fairly quickly, from a few weeks to a couple of months after losing it.
  — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
• Past researchers have tackled the topic of olfaction navigation by blocking the bird's sense of smell or disrupting their magnetic sense, according to a press release.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 30 Aug. 2017
• The complexity of the chemistry that the nose detects has made olfaction particularly difficult to explain.
  — Wynne Parry, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2023
• The results suggest some regions of the brain connected to the olfaction system may shrink slightly in the wake of an infection, although the effect is minor and its consequences are unclear.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Mar. 2022