Synonyms for sense of smell
sense of smell

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1. smell, sense of smell, olfaction, olfactory modalitynoun

   the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents

   Synonyms:
   smell, olfactory sensation, olfactory property, flavour, feel, feeling, flavor, look, olfaction, spirit, aroma, odour, scent, smelling, tone, odor, olfactory modality, olfactory perception

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1. • Exteroception
   • Modality

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1. Khadija Abraham:

   Training an animal with a strong and reliable sense of smell to help detect disease in a vast country like Tanzania could potentially offer a valuable solution to help detecting the disease.

2. Berlin Zoo on Tuesday:

   Deaf, blind and disoriented, Tosca was found stumbling around in her cage on Monday, she lost her sense of smell. It was a pathetic sight. Veterinarians, animal protection officials and zoo officials came to a joint decision to put the elderly Tosca out of her misery.

3. Merlin Sheldrake:

   The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested.

4. Holly Bourne:

   I'm at almost two weeks now and about 70 % of my sense of smell has returned. One nostril is doing better than the other nostril.

5. Steven Munger:

   What we've known for a long time is one of the major causes of smell loss are upper respiratory tract infections due to viruses -- a common cold, influenza -- a subset of people lose their sense of smell, most of them temporarily, but a small subset lose that smell permanently.