sensory perception of smell
Term Information
- Accession
- GO:0007608
- Ontology
- biological process
- Synonyms
- exact: olfaction
- exact: scent perception
- exact: sense of smell
- exact: 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. [source:
GOC:ai, http://www.onelook.com/]
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