📚 Olfaction, noun. 🔉 /ɒlˈfakʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (technical • mass noun): The action or capacity of smelling; the sense of smell. ❗️ Examples: 1. As an immunologist and neurobiologist, Mombaerts has decisively contributed to the basic mechanistic understanding of olfaction (sense of smell). 2. Humans detect chemical substances in the environment through 2 sensory channels: olfaction and the chemical sense. 3. The nurse shark relies on its sense of olfaction, touch and electrical reception. 4. This discovery suggests that this particular odorant receptor gene plays an integral role in olfaction, or sense of smell, and these results point the way to potential new methods for controlling the behavior of insects. 5. It has established prestigious five year fellowships for outstanding laboratory investigators, particularly in hearing and olfaction. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic