WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
olfac′tory nerve′, [Anat.]
- Anatomyeither one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
- 1660–70
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