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Preferred term

Olfactory Bulb  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Bulb, Main Olfactory
  • Bulbs, Main Olfactory
  • Bulbus Olfactorius
  • Main Olfactory Bulb
  • Main Olfactory Bulbs
  • Olfactorius, Bulbus
  • Olfactory Bulb, Main
  • Olfactory Bulbs, Main

Note

  • neoplasms: coordinate IM with BRAIN NEOPLASMS (IM) + histological type of neoplasm (IM)

Scope note

  • Ovoid body resting on the CRIBRIFORM PLATE of the ethmoid bone where the OLFACTORY NERVE terminates. The olfactory bulb contains several types of nerve cells including the mitral cells, on whose DENDRITES the olfactory nerve synapses, forming the olfactory glomeruli. The accessory olfactory bulb, which receives the projection from the VOMERONASAL ORGAN via the vomeronasal nerve, is also included here.

History note

  • 1974(1972); use LIMBIC SYSTEM 1963-1973; for OLFACTORY TRACT use OLFACTORY PATHWAYS 1993-2014

In other languages

  • hajukäämi

    Finnish

  • bulbus olfactorius
  • Luktlob

    Swedish

  • Bulbus olfactorius
  • Luktbana
  • Tractus olfactorius

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D009830

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