"Olfactory Nerve" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The 1st cranial nerve. The olfactory nerve conveys the sense of smell. It is formed by the axons of OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS which project from the olfactory epithelium (in the nasal epithelium) to the OLFACTORY BULB.
| Descriptor ID |
D009832
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A08.800.800.120.640
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| Concept/Terms |
Olfactory Nerve- Olfactory Nerve
- Nerve, Olfactory
- Nerves, Olfactory
- Olfactory Nerves
- Olfactory Fila
- Fila, Olfactory
- Filas, Olfactory
- Olfactory Filas
- Fila Olfactoria
- Fila Olfactorias
- Olfactoria, Fila
- Olfactorias, Fila
- First Cranial Nerve
- Cranial Nerve, First
- Cranial Nerves, First
- First Cranial Nerves
- Nerve, First Cranial
- Nerves, First Cranial
- Cranial Nerve I
- Cranial Nerve Is
- Is, Cranial Nerve
- Nerve I, Cranial
- Nerve Is, Cranial
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