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  1. noun The sense of smell.
  2. noun The act or process of smelling.

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  • A biologically adaptive property of olfaction is produced by RANCs. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The RAM explanations of the phenomena are the same as the RANC explanations for olfaction, except that photostimuli suppress photoreceptor activity. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The RAM's explanation of perceived color constancy is the same as the RANC's explanation for olfaction: The RAM cells that respond to a photostimulus depend on the ordering of the cones 'responses, and that ordering does not change with photostimulus intensity. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • The scientists also tested 70 new odors by predicting the neural patterns they would arouse and running comparisons with the unpublished results of olfaction experiments done at the University of Tokyo.
  • Despite the large body of literature on transient receptor potential (TRP) channels - ion channels that are directly involved in vision, taste, hearing, touch, olfaction, and other senses - very little is known about their biophysics and protein structure, or the mechanisms that control their gating processes. —  Health News from Medical News Today
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  1. Latin olfactus, past participle of olfacere, to smell; see olfactory + -ion.

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  1. from olfact + -ion.
 

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/ɑlˈfækʃən/
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