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Parent Terms Term With Siblings Child Terms
detection of chemical stimulus involved in sensory perception +   
magnetoreception by sensory perception of chemical stimulus +  
sensory perception of smell +   
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.
sensory perception of taste +   

Synonyms
Exact Synonyms: olfaction ;   scent perception ;   sense of smell ;   smell perception
Xrefs: Wikipedia:Olfaction
Definition Sources: GOC:ai

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