How to Use olfactory bulb in a Sentence

olfactory bulb

noun
  • The implant is also about the right size for the olfactory bulb on the edge of the brain.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 17 Oct. 2022
  • On the other hand, the olfactory bulb allows the brain to process smells.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 July 2022
  • The virus may get to the brain through the olfactory bulb — which regulates smell — through the eyes or even from the bloodstream.
    — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Humans have two olfactory bulbs, one above each nasal cavity.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The condition is related to the olfactory bulb, a bundle of nerves in the brain that process smell.
    — Lauren Caruba, ExpressNews.com, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The connection likely has to do with a part of the brain called the olfactory bulb, which processes sense of smell.
    — NBC News, 29 July 2021
  • The olfactory bulb is the first part of the brain that receives information about what’s been inhaled through the nose.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Salinas has always had a hunch that bacteria might be leaking from the nose into the olfactory bulb.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The human sense of smell is not very acute, so the olfactory bulb is relatively small—about the size of a sunflower seed.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The olfactory nerve begins in the nasal cavity and ends in the olfactory bulb, in the brain.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Now, a study reveals that the problem may not lie in the nose or olfactory bulb itself, as previously thought.
    — New Atlas, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Scientists believe the virus can enter the brain through the olfactory bulb, where taste and smell are decoded.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Because cannabis affects cannabinoid receptors in the olfactory bulb in the brain, food can smell and taste more intense.
    — Amiah Taylor, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The olfactory bulb also sends signals to other parts of the brain that play a role in emotion, memory and learning.
    — NBC News, 29 July 2021
  • The researchers found that the order in which the six areas of the olfactory bulb was crucial to the scent being recognized.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020
  • The olfactory bulb transmits smell information from the nose to the brain, and is thus necessary for a proper sense of smell.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The olfactory bulb has connections to regions of the temporal lobe.
    — Jessica Bernard, The Conversation, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The latest research looked at a part of the brain called the olfactory bulb, which processes information about smell.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
  • One patient born without an olfactory bulb could smell because other parts of her brain remolded to serve as substitutes.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The team is currently searching out more people lacking olfactory bulbs for follow-up studies.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The odors then stimulate our nasal olfactory neurons and the olfactory bulb.
    — Bernard Marr, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • In living birds, the size of the olfactory bulb is linked to both the number and diversity of smell receptors an animal has.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 11 June 2019
  • For the study, the team sampled olfactory bulb tissues from 15 human cadavers.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The threads and microplastic pieces were discovered in the olfactory bulb, the part of the nose responsible for detecting odors that sits at the base of the brain.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 16 Sep. 2024
  • These ultrafine particles can translocate from people’s noses into their brains via the olfactory bulb, Casey said.
    — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2024
  • This microorganism travels through the nasal passage and breaks through the bony cribriform plate – which separates the nose and the brain – to enter the olfactory bulb.
    — New Atlas, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Connecting the olfactory bulb and the nasal cavity is the olfactory nerve.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2024
  • As a result, that information about the smell of gasoline is quickly passed on from the olfactory bulb to the parts of your brain that control your emotions and memories.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The olfactory bulb — the area of the brain that processes odors — is tightly connected to the amygdala, which is where the brain reacts emotionally.
    — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 9 May 2018
  • Smell-receptor neurons converge on the olfactory bulb, which then sends signals to be processed by the olfactory cortex.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2021

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